| February 15, 2019
Why Policy Makers are Beginning to Tackle Exclusionary Zoning Across the U.S.
Last week, I had the honor of introducing Heather Worthington at the Urban Land Institute Terwilliger Center for Housing’s Housing Opportunity 2019 conference in Newport Beach, California. If Heather’s name isn’t familiar to you, the policy she helped create, Minneapolis 2040, likely is. Heather is the Director of Long Range Planning for the City of Minneapolis, where she […]
| January 18, 2019
A Housing Agenda for Rural America
Early in 2019, I accepted an invitation to speak at the Mason County Affordable Workforce Housing Summit, in Washington state’s relatively remote Olympic Peninsula. We often tend to think of housing as a uniquely urban or suburban issue, or one that only impacts high-growth areas. But rural America faces many challenges when it comes to […]
| December 9, 2018
Housing in the 116th Congress
After the runoff in the Mississippi Senate special election and the final ballots in California are counted, Election 2018 has finally wrapped. In the House, Democrats will take control for the first time since 2010 after netting 40 seats – their biggest gain in a single election since the “Watergate Babies” class of 1974. Democrats […]
| November 7, 2018
California is 3.4-million homes short of what’s needed. Here are some solutions to fix the problem
It likely comes as no surprise to many readers that California is underproducing housing. According to Up for Growth’s latest report, “Housing Underproduction in California,” from 2000 – 2015, America’s most populous state fell 3.4-million housing units short of meeting demand. This happened while the state was simultaneously experiencing unprecedented economic growth. California’s 3.4 million […]
| October 30, 2018
The Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability
America is facing a new type of housing crisis, one of affordability. In the wake of the Great Recession, a housing shortage, coupled with house prices increasing at a pace faster than wages, has developed into a major issue of housing affordability. To solve this crisis, we need new ideas. The Ivory Prize for Housing […]
| October 23, 2018
Why older homes become more unaffordable if new homes cost more to build
The cost of housing is rapidly on the rise in nearly every corner of the country. In fact, over 11 million renters pay more than half of their incomes on rent. Today, in my first insights report, I’m going to explore the dynamics of a certain aspect our nation’s affordability crisis – the increasing unaffordability […]
