Red States

Opinion: Red States Grapple with Affordability Crisis as Sprawl Hits Its Limits

By David GreenwaldJuly 31, 20259 comments

The traditional narrative of red-state cities being the antidote to the coastal housing affordability crisis is breaking down, as cities like Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, Austin, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Boise, and Salt Lake City are experiencing rapid price growth, worsening traffic, and local pushback against new development, due to the physical and economic limits of sprawl.

OP-ED: Abundance or Illusion? The Democratic Party’s Housing Dilemma

By David GreenwaldMay 5, 202511 comments

The “abundance” camp is calling for building more, deregulating, and unleashing the private sector to solve the housing crisis, but the left argues that this is not enough and that we need to build differently and for different ends, such as expanding the nonprofit and public sectors, taxing vacancy and property hoarding, and using public options for housing finance and construction.