November 14, 2017
The Future of Public Housing
The Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley has posted Lessons for the Future of Public Housing: Assessing the Early Implementation of the Rental Assistance Demonstration Program. Housing policy analysts have bemoaned the chronic underfunding of public housing for decades … Continue reading
November 14, 2017 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
October 19, 2017
Housing Pays
The Los Angeles Business Council released its Housing Pays Report: Capturing the Economic and Fiscal Benefits of Increased Housing Production in L.A. LA has been taking serious steps recently to deal with its housing crisis and this report describes those steps … Continue reading
October 19, 2017 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
October 18, 2017
The Economics of Housing Supply
Housing economists Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko have posted The Economic Implications of Housing Supply to SSRN (behind a paywall but you can find a slightly older version of the paper here). The abstract reads, In this essay, we review the basic economics … Continue reading
October 18, 2017 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
October 17, 2017
Evidence and Innovation in Housing
Lee Anne Fennell and Benjamin Keys have posted the Introduction to their new book, Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy, to SSRN. It opens, No area of law and policy presents more important and pressing questions, or ones more … Continue reading
October 17, 2017 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
July 3, 2017
Easy Money From Fannie Mae
The San Francisco Chronicle quoted me in Fannie Mae Making It Easier to Spend Half Your Income on Debt. It reads in part, Fannie Mae is making it easier for some borrowers to spend up to half of their monthly pretax … Continue reading
July 3, 2017 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
June 28, 2017
Addressing NYC’s Affordable Housing Crisis
The NYC Rent Guidelines Board (of which I am a member) held a public hearing as part of its final vote on rent adjustments for the approximately one million dwelling units subject to the Rent Stabilization Law in New York City. … Continue reading
June 28, 2017 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
June 22, 2017
State of the Nation’s Housing 2017
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies has released its excellent State of the Nation’s Housing for 2017, with many important insights. The executive summary reads, in part, A decade after the onset of the Great Recession, the national housing market … Continue reading
June 22, 2017 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
