Must Watch: The Panic of 2008

I’m kicking off a series of posts at Forbes today about the housing discussion. The series is partially to get a lot of thoughts together in one thread. Lately I’ve been saying again and again to anyone that will listen, that we need to tackle some key problems today — like the notion that we’re […]

Center for Housing Economics, Part 3: Today, Tomorrow, and After That

The last couple days I’ve been parceling out a short proposal to found and build an institute that would push a pure form of supply side economics for housing policy. I’ve called it my message in a bottle. I’ve already written at Forbes about narrative. In what follows I try to reduce this down to […]

Center for Housing Economics, Part 2: Housing Policies for the Future

I have been getting the sense that if I wandered into the woods, cut off from all communication, spending my days just surviving for five or even ten years, I’d return to find the housing conversation stuck in the same place it is today; one group vigorously opposing increased housing supply to solve price issues, […]