Jake Carlson

"The 2008 financial crisis showed the impact of an enormous transfer of wealth and property out of the hands of families and communities and into the portfolios of Wall Street." Our case for the Social Housing Development Authority, w/ @gpbaiocchi nytimes.com/2021/03/03/opi…

Link to the full series here: x.com/urbandemos/sta…

New construction will be important, but so will preservation. Acquiring buildings creates a pathway for habitability and affordability that the market isn't providing. Also imp. for bldg decarb., which is mandated by LL 97, but also urgently needed doi.org/10.1016/j.erss…

The first in the @urbandemos Working Paper Series is what we call a “progressive building agenda”. In this case, the goal is to create housing for all, not only for who the market will bear. hdl.handle.net/2451/75567

All by: @maxabuchholz Tom Kemeny Gregory F. Randolf Michael Storper

They do note that increasing supply can have other good policy goals (reducing car dependency, carbon emissions, etc.), but claiming it alone will solely solve housing affordability is not grounded in reality. Instead, address inequality and increase affordable housing.

New working paper that adds to the growing critique of the "deregulationist" approach to singularly solving housing affordability. They argue that instead, the main culprit is growing inequality. researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/1310…