Housing in America
A primer on workforce and middle-income housing. In the past year, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have all pledged to help build more middle-income housing near their campuses. Tiffany Ford and Jenny Schuetz look at the rationale for housing subsidies targeted to middle-income families and examine some of the political and economic implications of workforce housing policies.
Is zoning a useful tool or a regulatory barrier? Zoning laws are under fire for their role in escalating U.S. housing costs. But how exactly does zoning drive up costs? And how can we tell when zoning is excessively restrictive? A new report from Jenny Schuetz explores.
