Housing & Transportation
The relationship between where housing is built and how people move. Transit-oriented development, infrastructure costs at the urban edge, and federal transportation policy as housing leverage.
Building near transit pencils out for cities
Where a home is built changes what it costs a city to serve it. The fiscal math on infill and the housing math point in the same direction.
Federal housing policy and the states
Remarks at the Council of State Governments East housing event on the emerging federal housing supply agenda, what is moving in Congress, and why state action remains decisive.
Housing isn't just an affordability crisis
America's housing shortage is not just about affordability. It is a production failure with consequences for public health, equity, transportation, and economic opportunity.
Housing is where jobs go to sleep at night
Why economic development policy is increasingly intertwined with housing — how a nationwide shortage of homes became a drag on jobs, GDP, and regional competitiveness, and the local barriers most responsible for it.
New Rochelle, New York: A case study in how focusing on transit can increase housing options
I recount how New Rochelle rezoned its downtown around its train station, and why the Build More Housing Near Transit Act aimed to encourage that approach.
Housing is the environmental issue of our time
I connect housing, transportation, land use, and environmental outcomes, asking how where we build homes changes travel, land consumption, and emissions.
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