Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. Dec 01, 2025, 09:30am EST What seemed like an ideal purchase because of ...

Jerome Powell has stopped pretending the Federal Reserve can rescue the American housing market. He now describes housing as a looming problem built on years of underbuilding and policy choices that ...

Rents rise when cities block new homes. Data tools didn’t create the housing shortage or high prices — policy choices did, ...

The call is coming from inside the house. For all the talk about the Fed's prolonged challenge to tame the frenzy of the COVID-era housing market, it's the central bank's own headquarters that's ...

Los Angeles' housing crisis is caused by decades of political hesitation, resulting in a shortage of housing despite near-universal agreement that more homes are needed, and is exacerbated by ...

While Nashville continues to grow, many of the residents who power the city are having a harder time staying here.