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How Federal Lands Can Be Used to Ease the Housing Crisis
To create affordable homes on federal lands, the federal government shouldn’t sell lands for development — it should lease them.
Next to inflation, Americans ranked housing as their top financial concern in a Gallup survey last May. Since then, it’s gotten only worse. January home sales were down 5 percent from last year’s dismal numbers. Record numbers of first-time buyers are stuck on the sidelines as housing affordability stands at its lowest level in 40 years.
President Trump must follow through on his campaign pledge “to open up tracts of federal land for housing construction.”
The housing market depends largely on interest rates and zoning — factors outside any president’s direct control. But the massive federal land portfolio gives middle- and lower-income Americans a better shot at homeownership. The federal government is the nation’s biggest landowner, holding one-third of all property — a land mass six times the size of California.
Pursuit of Happiness
Estimating the Productivity of Community Colleges in Paving the Road To Four-Year College Success
Despite a relatively rich literature on the community college pathway, the research base on the quality differences between these institutions has been decidedly thin.
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American Education's Need for a New Founding
The challenge is not to invent new principles but to recover and apply those that best guide American education.
Why Endowments of Educational Institutions Shouldn't be Taxed
The idea that an institution should be taxed because politicians think it’s too woke should make all who care about academic freedom nervous.
