The housing crisis in Davis is caused by a combination of insufficient production, a mismatch between supply and demand, and a lack of affordable housing options, requiring a combination of increased supply and policies to address inequality and financialization in order to make meaningful change.
The US is short at least 4 million homes, and economist Chris Hughes argues that reforming the Federal Home Loan Bank System to prioritize affordable housing could help address the shortage.
Eric Jones is a progressive politician running on a platform of ending monopoly abuses, expanding Medicare, providing universal childcare, and increasing taxes on the wealthy to pay for investments.
New housing construction in the US is increasingly out of reach for first-time buyers, as homes grow larger and more expensive, with the shift toward larger homes reducing the number of entry-level homes and limiting homeownership to older, higher-income buyers.
The Cicero Institute, a well-funded think tank, is behind a coordinated policy effort that has led to 22 states considering or enacting laws that increase penalties on people experiencing homelessness, while California is pursuing alternative approaches that prioritize access to services.
Opportunity Zones have the potential to increase housing production, but only if state housing agencies are given a central role in the designation process and the program is implemented strategically.
The Ellis Act, a 1985 California state law, has been used by the real estate industry to destroy tens of thousands of affordable housing apartments, contributing to the housing affordability and homelessness crises, and activists are fighting to repeal or reform the law.
Davis is facing a large affordable housing deficit, and without large-scale projects like Village Farms and Willowgrove, the city will not be able to meet its state-mandated housing requirements.
Activists and tenants in England are organizing a nationwide, pro-rent control demonstration on April 18 to call on politicians to put people first and address the housing crisis caused by sky-high rents and the profit-driven agenda of the real estate industry.
Tom Steyer’s housing platform is the most structurally complete from an MMT perspective, combining supply expansion, direct investment in affordable units, and structural fiscal reform, while the other candidates’ platforms are either insufficient or stop short of the public provision logic the crisis requires.
The District 4 debate in San Francisco’s Sunset District revealed a divided community grappling with issues of public safety, transportation, and housing, as candidates offered competing visions for the neighborhood’s future.
The political fight over Measure V and the proposed Village Farms project has been marked by dueling polls, with both sides refusing to release the full survey questions, leading to accusations of bias and dishonesty from opponents.
A new study from the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality has found that new housing stock in six high-growth metropolitan areas primarily served moderate- and higher-income households, while lower-income households experienced higher rent growth than higher-income households.
The United States is facing an existential crisis due to a lack of political imagination and a scarcity mindset, which has led to the criminalization of poverty, homelessness, and immigration, and a reliance on punishment rather than investment in social programs.
The argument that declining birth rates will eventually relieve housing pressure is flawed, as it ignores the economic, migratory, and climate forces that will shape demand far more powerfully than fertility trends in the decades ahead, and the housing crisis is a present shortfall that needs to be addressed now.
Zillow Chief Economist Svenja Gudell warned in 2016 that the imbalance between demand for low- and middle-income housing and the overwhelming share of new luxury apartment construction would deepen affordability pressures, but policymakers and housing advocates ignored her warning and prioritized market faith over material outcomes.
Opposition to housing construction is often rooted in population alarmism, which treats people as the problem and scarcity as a moral necessity, rather than a policy failure, and ignores the benefits of density and the adaptability of social systems.
Institutional investors are being blamed for driving up home prices, but the real cause of the affordability crisis is chronic undersupply of housing due to restrictive zoning, procedural delays, and legal challenges.
Journalist Brian Goldstone argues that homelessness in America is not primarily caused by joblessness or individual dysfunction, but by economic and housing structures that make it difficult for working families to afford housing.
California’s housing crisis is being driven by political hesitation, outdated zoning choices, and a regulatory and fiscal framework that often undermines the goals of elected leaders, resulting in low housing production and rising costs.