The U.S. faces three types of housing market problems, with three very different types of solutions. Yet, policy efforts at the city level to the state level treat all three the same. Ironically, this ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. Dec 01, 2025, 09:30am EST What seemed like an ideal purchase because of ...

Rents rise when cities block new homes. Data tools didn’t create the housing shortage or high prices — policy choices did, ...

Jerome Powell has stopped pretending the Federal Reserve can rescue the American housing market. He now describes housing as a looming problem built on years of underbuilding and policy choices that ...

The call is coming from inside the house. For all the talk about the Fed's prolonged challenge to tame the frenzy of the COVID-era housing market, it's the central bank's own headquarters that's ...

For several years now, much of the focus in our industry has been on affordability. Closely tied to that, we have had many discussions regarding existing owners being frozen in place with their ...