What Medicare for All is for health care, social housing is for shelter.
Housing
Posted inEconomic Policy
How to Fight Inflation
Skanda Amarnath of Employ America talked to TAP about how optimal solutions for private companies make the economy brittle and vulnerable to future shocks.
Posted inHousing
City Limits
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s bold plans for affordable housing run into old-school politics, perverse regulations, and limited home rule.
Posted inTAP
Cheap Grace
Today on TAP: Anti-slavery meets the modern sale of naming rights at Harvard.
Posted inHousing
How to Solve the Housing Crisis With One Weird Trick
American cities are (finally) beginning to hear about social housing.
Posted inTAP
Inflation and Housing Gentrification
Today on TAP: The price-gouging in affordable housing units has nothing to do with other sources of inflation.
Posted inTAP
The Oligarchs Who Abuse Real Estate
Today on TAP: State and local governments can uncover their identities and take some of the profit out of their maneuvers.
Posted inBooks
Homelessness Meets Cluelessness
Michael Shellenberger applies conservative culture war clichés to the housing problem.
Posted inHousing
The Great Housing Inflation as a Long-Term Policy Failure
High prices of homes and rental apartments have very little to do with today’s general inflation, but reflect decades of perverse policies that hurt both renters and aspiring homeowners.