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Let's think less about who to tear down and more about what to build

An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.

Although state legislatures took unprecedented strides toward releasing the housing supply from its regulatory straitjacket in 2025, most pro-housing policies have not yet been adopted in most states....

A proposed 2026 ballot initiative could seed housing production by making it easier to build more affordable single-family starter homes in Massachusetts.

Newt talks with Salim Furth, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Urbanity project at the Mercatus Center about America’s housing affordability crisis. Their discussion centers on the pressing i...

In this episode, economist Salim Furth explains why the housing crisis isn’t just speculation: it’s demand running headfirst into regulation. His research quantifies how much red tape really costs fam...

In the 1970s, as rapid inflation squeezed American families’ budgets, elected officials felt pressured to take visible actions to help their constituents.

With no relief from high home prices and rents, more and more state legislators are interested in pursuing housing reform. As a result, state legislatures set new records for the number and strength o...

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An ambitious new state law championed by Maryland Governor Wes Moore will allow denser multifamily housing within three quarters of a mile of the state’s many rail transit stations. The law also inclu...

The city’s new reforms will help build more units

Antitrust critics say that homebuilding monopolies are the real culprit of America’s housing woes. I looked into some of their claims. They don’t hold up.

The Northern Virginia county’s push for more “missing middle” housing had divided its residents and was paused in response to a lawsuit from some homeowners.

Rather than an expensive megaproject, D.C. should focus on an organic approach to city-building.

Rather than an expensive megaproject, D.C. should focus on an organic approach to city-building.

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Abstract This policy brief compares the operating expenses of the Federal Reserve with other large federal agencies. Inflation-adjusted salaries of Fed employees increased 67 percent from 2007 to 2024...

To address the high cost of housing, lawmakers across the country can learn from the experience of states such as Colorado, Tennessee, Connecticut, Arizona, and Montana. Options for reform include rev...