Cities Can Have More Housing--If They Work for It

Cities Can Have More Housing--If They Work for It

In the last 5 years, Washington DC experienced a housing boom. It took a lot more than passive deregulation.

Cities Can Have Abundant Housing—if They’re Willing To Work for It

Since Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book Abundance was published, the policy world has debated the causes of our current housing supply drought. Abundance argued that zoning laws are the culprit, as part of its broader thesis calling for liberals to embrace a policy vision oriented around building more of what we need (i.e., “abundance”) primarily through targeted deregulation of private industry and de-proceduralization of government. Other a…