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Mike Kingsella is the Founder and CEO of Up for Growth, the federal coalition working to turn housing abundance into policy that passes, scales, and changes what gets built. He writes Homefront and is based in Washington, DC.
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Mike Kingsella is the Founder and CEO of Up for Growth, a national coalition advancing federal housing policy that translates into more homes built. He works at the intersection of policy design and production reality — what passes Congress, what scales through capital markets, and what actually changes on the ground for households and developers. Mike founded Up for Growth in 2017 to make housing underproduction a national policy conversation. Today the coalition represents members across the housing ecosystem and sits at the center of federal supply-side housing reform. Up for Growth's underproduction analysis has been cited by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, NPR, and Bloomberg. He writes Homefront, a federal housing-policy briefing, and is based in Washington, DC.
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Mike Kingsella is the Founder and CEO of Up for Growth, a national coalition advancing federal housing policy that translates into more homes built. He works at the intersection of policy design and production reality — what passes Congress, what scales through capital markets, and what actually changes on the ground for households and developers. Mike founded Up for Growth in 2017 to make housing underproduction a national policy conversation. At a time when most federal housing debate centered on demand-side tools, Up for Growth's analysis put the underproduction gap on the map, helping recast housing supply as a bipartisan national priority. Today the coalition represents members across the housing ecosystem — developers, capital providers, civic and policy organizations — and sits at the center of federal supply-side housing reform. Mike's work translates between three constituencies that typically don't talk to each other directly: federal policymakers writing the rules, capital-markets actors deploying the financing, and the developers and operators delivering the homes. The work has been cited by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, NPR, Bloomberg, and Semafor, and Up for Growth's underproduction analysis informs federal housing-supply legislation moving through Congress. He writes Homefront, a regular briefing on federal housing policy as it actually moves — what is on the table, what is real, and what to watch. He has spoken to the Council of State Governments, the ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, and a range of policy and industry audiences. Mike is based in Washington, DC.
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Mike Kingsella speaking on stage at a conference
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