Writing.
Longer-form essays on federal housing policy, the production economics that decide what gets built, and the gap between the policy we write and the homes people can afford. For shorter, weekly reads, see Homefront.
Essays
Recent writing.
Why Limiting Investment Time Horizons for Build-to-Rent Communities is Bad for Affordable Housing
I explain why treating purpose-built rental neighborhoods like scattered investor-owned homes risks shrinking the capital stack behind new housing supply.
We Didn't Just Price Out Renters. We Priced Out the Ability to Build.
How regulation, delay, and rising development costs turned a housing affordability crisis into a breakdown in the basic ability to build — and where that leaves federal policy.
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.