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June 24, 2025
Public Housing and Rental Subsidies
…of the US Government, Fiscal Year 2025 (Government Publishing Office, 2024), p. 547. 23. “Voucher Payment Standards and Utility Standards,” New York City Housing Authority. 24. Buel W. Patch, “Federal Home…
June 5, 2025
More Evidence of How Housing Regulation Is Bad for Housing
…regulations have impeded homebuilding for decades, making housing in many such cities unnecessarily expensive and disrupting the historical economic process where people raise their living standards by moving to where…
June 4, 2025
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
…incentive for long-term investment in economically disadvantaged communities that were designated by governors as so-called opportunity zones, subject to federal standards based on the communities’ median income and official poverty…
May 7, 2025
Displacement by Design: How Bad Policy Made Housing Scarce, and How We Can Fix It
Musical chairs is one of the first games we play as children. The rules are simple: there are fewer chairs than players. When the music stops, someone ends up standing….
March 28, 2025
Unfreezing New York’s Projects
…new buildings erected, and tenants moved into the new apartments that become available. The experienced private developers will be responsible for interim repairs on the old, leaky buildings still standing….
March 24, 2025
Tax Abatements: The Best-Kept Secret to Revitalizing Struggling Communities—Without Spending Taxpayer Money
…rules, faster permitting, and cost-effective building standards A meaningful property tax abatement that closes the feasibility gap Increased zoning capacity and flexibility to allow greater density across more areas When…
March 3, 2025
It’s Time for Time Limits on Public Housing
Like other Cabinet agencies, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is moving quickly to undo long-standing progressive policies. New HUD Secretary Scott Turner has asserted that the agency is now “DEI-free.” Perhaps even more…
February 27, 2025
How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market
…of The Atlantic, does not directly criticize the assumptions behind such long-standing public policy in his new book, Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Back the Engine of American Opportunity….
January 21, 2025
Calling DOGE: HUD’s Costly Hunt for Answers the Market Already Has
…root causes of the problem. This stands in direct opposition to the principles championed by DOGE (the Division of Oversight for Government Efficiency), which emphasize deregulation and market-driven solutions. Ultimately,…
January 17, 2025
Regulations Keep Millions of Bedrooms Empty During a Housing Crisis
…of five single adults or multiple unmarried couples in order to share costs are not permitted to do so—no matter how many bedrooms are available. These relics stand in the…