November 5, 2025
VIDEO: Retrenchment and Rollback in Consumer Protection and Housing
The video for the ABA Professor’s Corner webinar on Retrenchment and Rollback: Federal Consumer Protection and Housing has been posted. Rosa Newman (Elon) moderated and I spoke alongside Kathleen Engel (Suffolk) and Julie Patterson Forrester Rogers (SMU). The session explored “the federal government’s … Continue reading
November 5, 2025 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
October 28, 2024
Social Housing, Federal Style
U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) and Representative Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) recently introduced the Homes Act which would establish a Housing Development Authority. The HDA is based on the Social Housing Development Authority bill introduced in New York … Continue reading
October 28, 2024 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
July 14, 2023
Housing Supply and The Housing Crisis
Opportunity Now interviewed me about how limited housing construction impacts the housing crisis: Dynamic metropolitan areas like the Bay Area, LA, and New York City suffer from longstanding mismatches between the supply of housing and demand for it. Local communities … Continue reading
July 14, 2023 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
April 27, 2022
Sharing Your Home with Strangers
Debra Bechtel, Crystal Liu, Ernira Mehmetaj, and I have just posted Sharing Your Home with Strangers: Common-Interest Ownership and Financing Options to SSRN (as well as to bepress). The abstract reads, As the affordable housing crisis in the U.S. escalates, … Continue reading
April 27, 2022 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
October 29, 2021
Reducing Land Use and Zoning Restrictions
The White House hosted an event today on Reducing Land Use and Zoning Restrictions. While the event was pretty short — an hour or so — it had a bunch of heavy hitters presenting, including Professor Edward Glaeser of Harvard. … Continue reading
October 29, 2021 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
July 10, 2019
Does Historic Preservation Limit Affordable Housing?
I answer that it can in CQ Researcher’s Historic Preservation: Can The Past Escape The Wrecking Ball? Many people fail to realize that land use policies like historic preservation involve big trade-offs. The most important one is that if you want … Continue reading
July 10, 2019 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
May 9, 2019
Financing The American Dream
I published Financing The American Dream in the May/June 2019 issue of the ABA’s Probate & Property magazine. it opens, Two movie scenes can bookend the last hundred years of housing finance. In Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (RKO … Continue reading
May 9, 2019 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
