My latest op-ed for the DailyHive was posted on August 20, 2025. You can read it here.
Interventions by senior levels of government is a major interest of mine–I wrote a Master of Laws thesis on the subject, after all! The basic problem is that local governments have all the wrong incentives when it comes to housing: local voters are, pretty much by definition, people who have successfully found local housing; meanwhile, people who have been priced out of a given city don’t get to vote on the policies that have excluded them.