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Ben Preis

@benjaminpreis.com
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Principal, Urban Research Advisors. Housing is important and we should build more of it. Formerly MIT DUSP and Tufts University. he/him

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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 11/08/2026
Excited to be joining the Roosevelt Institute as a Good Life Resident for Housing!
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The 51st @51st.news · 12/07/2026
"I worry that there is misleading information coming directly from the D.C. government that may be confusing tenants about their rights." A loophole in D.C.'s new RENTAL Act that is further threatening TOPA protections for renters:
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DC tenant advocates sound alarm about a RENTAL Act loophole
Tenant organizers fought to exempt renovated buildings from the sweeping housing law, but advocates say that isn’t working in practice.
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 23/06/2026
It's a shame that LLM's ruined the sentence construction of "X isn't Y -- it's Z." That sometimes a useful sentence construction but now I can't read it without thinking that an LLM wrote it.
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 10/05/2026
Some days I feel like my job is just copy-editing AI slop that Very Important People have sent to me while pretending that it is their Very Good Work Product, and I am tired of it.
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 09/09/2025
Very excited to contribute to #TheRooftop at from @futurelandhousing.bsky.social at New America. My piece discusses the roadblocks that face the diffusion of policy innovations in housing and how policy entrepreneurs can help overcome some of these barriers. www.newamerica.org/future-land-...
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We Need More Policy Entrepreneurs to Solve the Housing Crisis
Amid a growing wealth of good ideas to address the housing shortage, we need to make sure the right ones reach the right places.
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Allison Shertzer @econhist-allday.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I am looking for a research assistant to work with me on the development of U.S. housing markets. Experience with ArcGIS, Stata useful. We build datasets that allow us to understand housing affordability, the impacts of transit and zoning, and more: rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FRS/jo...
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Research Assistant/Sr. Research Assistant
Company Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Job Description Summary Research assistants (RAs) at the Philadelphia Fed play a key role in the Economic Research Department. Whether they are helping eco...
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 26/06/2025
After a tremendous year of work, I'm pleased to announce that the National Housing Crisis Task Force has released its State & Local Housing Action Plan. With 15 bold ideas to address the housing shortage, we hope this plan can help local leaders act now. nationalhousingcrisis.org/app/uploads/...
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 29/04/2025
Californians... talk to me about SB750. Any analysis of the proposal and its potential impacts? @resnikoff.bsky.social @mnolangray.bsky.social
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 13/03/2025
I know I'm not the first one to make the critique, but it is a sad state of affairs to celebrate a not-quite-monthly, nbhood-specific street closure when major cities all around the world close arterial roads every weekend. Just wish DC could get there.
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 17/12/2024
Really excited to read this paper by a great group of scholars studying a critical issue as different forms of rental property ownership continues to be an issue vexing local communities.
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Prentiss Dantzler @docdantzler.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Housing Policy Debate has opened a call for papers exploring the question "How does housing policy impact the racial wealth gap?"  (1/2)
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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Is there a recent-ish digest paper of state-level housing affordability/production interventions?
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 05/12/2024
Maybe billionaires buying newspapers wasn't the best solution to the local news crisis.
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 27/11/2024
Does anyone know of a database of which states/localities offer tax abatements/exemptions for affordable housing - and what those abatement requirements are? @yfreemark.bsky.social @cbgoodman.co maybe you know of something?
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 25/11/2024
I appreciate the spirit of a national model building code (it's in the report that the National Housing Crisis Task Force just released earlier this month), but I'm skeptical of an *Affordable Housing building code* as that could imply that affordable housing is held to a lower standard.
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Katie Kramer @katiebkramer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I created a Starter Pack to help our economic development friends find each other. Join the conversation and help spread tbr word!
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 21/11/2024
Excited to have Pittsburgh data-provider and holder of the historical knowledge Chris Briem over here.
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 21/11/2024
As someone working on creating some state and local housing policy explainers, I'm pretty interested in this question myself!
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Tony Damiano @tonydamiano.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
New Research Thread🧵: We examine the spatial patterns and eviction rates of single-family landlords in the Twin Cities. We find Private Equity firms and REITs each have their own distinct geographies and evict tenants at higher rates than smaller landlords. 1/
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 20/11/2024
Want to contribute to Transit Explorer (www.thetransportpolitic.com/transitexplo...) & Atlas of Sustainable Transport (itdp.org/publication/...)? @itdp-hq.bsky.social has a $2,500 RFP out for folks who know how to map. If you're interested, check out the link: oneitdp.sharepoint.com/:w:/s/Sustai...
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 08/01/2024
🚨🚨Just absolutely thrilled to see my first dissertation paper in print with Annals of the AAG🎉🎉 "Where the Landlords Are: A Network Approach to Landlord-Rental Locations" 🧵... doi.org/10.1080/2469...
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 02/12/2023
One thing they don't tell you about getting married: the cardboard boxes when you receive wedding gifts. So many cardboard boxes.
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 29/11/2023
How long can an article be "Awaiting Final Decision" before it becomes appropriate to email a journal editor?
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Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com · 02/10/2023
🎉🎉 Let me use my first post here to announce that my first dissertation paper has been accepted to the Annals of the AAG. Pre-print forthcoming to my website, and hopefully published by AAG soon! 🎉🎉
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