Housing The Unintended Consequences of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Using the tax code to help people find an affordable place to live has led to bureaucratic morass, fewer homes, and higher housing costs.
Housing Two ideas for improving the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program The LIHTC is complicated and costly. Relief should provide benefits to families in need.
Housing Biden’s housing plan will increase demand more than supply Zoning increases rental prices and subsidizing those pricey units won’t help people with less money.
Housing Lowering barriers to the production of more housing In order to make housing affordable, we need to reduce regulatory restrictions that constrain the supply of housing.
Housing Making it easier to build low-income housing The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program is too complicated and opaque. What if we made it super simple?
Housing Coons-Cramer housing voucher proposal is a start toward reform Today, housing assistance is bogged down in bureaucracy. A new bill could help make it easier to provide voucher-based assistance to those who need it.
Housing We need more housing, not more spending on housing Biden's housing proposal suggests that what ails American housing “a severe shortage of affordable housing,” implying that the problem is one of price, not supply. What we really need is more housing so that it is affordable.
COVID-19 Not funny: State governments are playing games with needed rent relief We can make the distribution of rent relief more efficient if state and local governments allow banks and credit unions to work with their customers to get a tally of unpaid rent, put the money in their accounts, and settle the details later.
Rural Affairs The housing crisis applies to rural areas too When we think of a housing crisis in the United States we often think of it being an urban problem. However, the problem of housing scarcity is not limited to fast-growing urban areas, as a new report on Michigan farmworkers shows.