The Center for Housing Economics: Can We Build an Intellectual Case for Housing Supply?
We’re making it happen! Go to The Center for Housing Economics website. 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 […]
We Don’t Need Rent Control: We Already Have the MFTE Program, Rent Restrictions
Exactly a four years ago yesterday, I wrote a post at Publicola about why we don’t need rent control. The post was built on the idea that we already have thousands of rent restricted units, that is, units of housing that have rents that can’t go up because they are restricted to rents by covenant, […]
Back to Ohio
This week I’ll be attending and speaking at the Ohio Realtors Spring Legislative Conference. The title of my session is Affordable Housing: Developing Policies that Encourage Housing Without Trampling on Private Property Rights. Property rights has become the province of the right wing. It shouldn’t be. Do we have property rights or not? Of course we […]
