The Wall Street Journal looked at the scale of the housing shortage across the United States and the extent to which the problem reaches beyond a handful of high-cost coastal markets. The piece helped frame housing underproduction as a national production problem rather than a purely local or regional one.
The article drew on Up for Growth's early work on housing underproduction to show how years of insufficient building had created a deep mismatch between supply and demand. It underscored the idea that the shortage was not limited to the most obvious pressure points, but was affecting a broader range of states and metro areas than many policymakers and observers recognized.
I was cited in the piece as part of a broader discussion about why the country had fallen behind in building enough homes. The underlying issue remains central today: if the United States does not produce enough housing to meet demand, affordability worsens, economic mobility suffers, and growth becomes harder to sustain.
The reporting belongs to The Wall Street Journal; the read here is mine.