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Ashley Hackett and Greta Kaul report on Minnesota’s severe housing shortage.

Addressing housing affordability needs to be a priority. But it can’t be done through rent control.

Forbes Columnist Roger Valdez outlines why rent control is the wrong answer to Chicago’s housing affordability crisis. Chicago doesn’t need rent control. A headline from the Chicago Tribune from earlier this year tells the story: “Chicago rents fell 12% in 2020.” Where is the need for controlling rents when they are falling?   A closer look, […]

Andrew Ackerman and Nicole Friedman with the Wall Street Journal outline how President Biden’s infrastructure proposal could help cities address their housing shortages. 

In the U.S., we’ve known for some time now just how destructive rent control policies can be. Failed experiments in Cambridge and San Francisco left residents with fewer housing options and higher rents in the non-controlled units, while disincentivizing the construction of new housing altogether. But new evidence from across the Atlantic Ocean demonstrates just […]

Mercatus Center Senior Research Fellow Salim Furth argues that in order to increase housing affordability, Americans need to embrace a vision of suburbia that includes growth and change.

Sarah Savko, a mom-and-pop property owner in Henderson, details how the eviction moratorium has caused her financial hardship.

Mark Robinson with the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports on a new tax credit program that could lead to the construction of hundreds of affordable apartments in the next several years.