News and Commentary At the Diamondback, Shreya Vuttaluru covers ongoing zoning revisions in Prince George's county: it "shouldn’t significantly alter housing and development in College Park, but it could raise [...]
News and Commentary At AEI, Edward Pinto and Tobias Peter present the latest trends in home purchases. "In Sep. 2021, while increases in second and investment purchase rate lock volume [...]
News and Commentary In a paper in the American Economic Review, Enrico Moretti evaluates whether high-tech clusters, highly concentrated in relatively few cities, influence inventor productivity, finding that "When an [...]
News and Commentary At Reason, Sasha Volokh explores in detail the constitutionality of universities' influence on zoning. In Spur, Michael Lane heralds the flurry of housing-friendly legislation signed in California [...]
News and Commentary Ed Glaeser and David Cutler offer an essay in the Wall Street Journal on mobility through the US, adapted from their new book. "It’s a troubling sign [...]
News and Commentary In Full Stack Economics, Timothy Lee summarizes recent papers finding desirable cascading effects of new luxury housing: "Often, the person who rents the new apartment is moving [...]
News and Commentary In an article from the Regulatory Review, Alana Sheppard summarizes a recent report from the Brookings Institution arguing that housing affordability problems have resulted from zoning restrictions. [...]
In a piece for Greater Greater Washington, Libby Solomon discusses a new report on the DC Flexible Rent Subsidy Program. According to Solomon, the report suggests that “it’s too soon [...]
In a piece for Greater Greater Washington, Wyatt Gordon discusses how to bring “missing middle” housing development to Virginia by reforming zoning regulations and allowing for mixed-use and multifamily buildings. [...]
News and Commentary In an episode of The Ezra Klein Show, Klein talks with Vox’s Jerusalem Demsas on US housing policy. In the episode they discuss topics such as transportation [...]