Housing Affordability

July 25, 2025

Strong Towns: What Happens When Housing Prices Go Down?

Continuing TPR’s coverage debunking the conventional wisdom dominating the housing policy debate and degrading local control over planning and land use, TPR excerpts this essay from Strong Towns Founder, Charles Morohn, for its insightful examination of the market dynamics that affect—and require—increasing housing costs beyond simple supply-side economics.

July 22, 2025

Dear Atlantic: Stop Publishing Propaganda on Housing. It's Too Important

In a sharply worded response to The Atlantic’s recent piece The Biggest Myth About the YIMBY Movement, Patrick Condon—James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Livable Environments at the University of British Columbia—rebukes what he calls the magazine’s “housing propaganda” and urges a more evidence-based debate on affordability. We support and share a related open letter from 27 well-known Metro Vancouver scholars, retired city planners, urbanists, developers and architects sent to Prime Minister Carney and Housing Minister Gregor Robertson, shared to us by Condon.

August 17, 2023

What Can We Learn From the Dutch Social Housing System?

Continuing TPR’s coverage of international models to address housing affordability challenges, here is the latest report from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies highlighting the Dutch social housing system.

March 7, 2022

Patrick Condon: Should Cities Now Mandate Affordability & Inclusionary Zoning?

TPR shares this excerpt from University of Vancouver Professor Patrick M. Condon’s book, Sick City, which examines the relationship between urban land values, affordability, and wealth inequality. Condon concludes that through mandated affordability and inclusionary zoning, cities can capture the exorbitant and inflated land wealth currently hoarded as equity for global finance markets to increase supply of stable, affordable, or “non-market” housing.

July 27, 2021

Josh Stephens Justifies Wall Street Commodification of R-1 Zones

Calling Blackstone a 'red herring' in arguments over the impacts of statewide upzoning, Josh Stephens argues the best way to hamper speculators is to override local control over planning in an effort to produce more housing.

September 23, 2020

CA’s Housing Needs Assessment Used Incorrect Data & Masks California's Failure to Build Affordable Housing

The latest research from Embarcadero Institute finds that California’s most recent housing needs assessment was calculated using incorrect vacancy rates and double counting resulting in inflated numbers that obscure the state’s true need: funding for affordable housing.

February 24, 2020

Housing Policy Unpacked: Who Will Accept the Challenges?

Watch this VX2020 panel on the complex dynamics driving the state's affordable housing and homelessness crises and the adequacy of state and local responses to the challenges that will define the state for the generation to come.

May 27, 2019

UCLA's Ananya Roy on Housing Inequality & Market-Driven Displacement

TPR is proud to present the following interview with Dr. Ananya Roy, professor of urban planning and founding director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy.

May 27, 2019

San Diego Mayoral Candidate Barbara Bry on Addressing Affordability Without Devaluing Community Planning

San Diego Councilmember Barbara Bry discusses the ongoing housing crisis and her vision for dense, neighborhood-driven transit-oriented communities in San Diego.

May 15, 2019

An Open Letter to Scott Wiener: SB 50 Empowers Wall Street to Commoditize Housing By Right!

An open letter to Senator Wiener by Hydee Feldstein, of the Land Use Committee of the P.I.C.O. Neighborhood Council, identifies alarming, pocket-lining loopholes that could permanently impact California communities.

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