Affordable Housing
Portland’s inclusionary zoning shows the limits of subsidies
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. Thanks to traveling last week for a reporting trip, this week's newsletter is a little abbreviated. The lead item focuses on efforts to "fund"…
Housing policy can be win-win for buyers, builders, and owners
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter takes on some rather unfortunate comments from President Donald Trump about his desire to keep housing prices high for current owners,…
‘I want to drive housing prices up’
President Donald Trump recently said: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own their homes." He's made comments about wanting to raise housing prices…
Trump issues executive order cracking down on corporate homeownership
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's newsletter includes stories on: President Donald Trump's executive order cracking down on large corporate ownership of single-family housing. A…
2026 could be the year of the starter home
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. State legislatures across the country are starting to convene. As they do, it's becoming clear that 2026 will be another very active year for supply-side…
Barring Institutional Investors From Buying Homes Won’t Make Housing More Affordable
Andrii Yalanskyi/Dreamstime.com Donald Trump announced today he plans to ban the purchase of single-family homes by large institutional investors. As with many Trump actions, this is not something the president actually has…
What is Zohran Mamdani’s affordable housing plan?
In the February/March 2026 issue of Reason, we explore Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's policy goals and what they mean for New York City. Click here to read the other entries. A few weeks before the New York Democrats'…
Trump blames illegal immigrants for high housing prices. Blame zoning instead.
President Donald Trump delivered an end-of-year address Wednesday night to tout economic accomplishments of dubious veracity and attribute hardships to anything other than his own policies. On historically high housing costs,…
Non-Paywalled Version of My Washington Examiner Article on “Foot Voting, Housing, and Affordability”
NA The Cato Institute has posted a non-paywalled version of my recent Washington Examiner article on "Foot Voting, Housing, and Affordability." I don't see a paywall blocking the article on the Examiner…
What America can learn from Japanese housing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tKTLqcDOaI I don't own a home. In fact, I don't even sleep in one. Houses are so expensive that, to save for a future down payment, I cut costs by living in the air vents here at the…
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