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Housing Will Remain a Government Program

Neeraj Chaudhary | 5 April 2011
The Administration's stated goal is to extricate itself from the US housing market, in order to make room for private investors. Unfortunately, in the current environment, nobody with half a brain is going to put their capital at risk in this sector.

The Housing Boom and Bust

Walter Williams | 27 May 2009
Hot off the press is my colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell's 43rd book, "The Housing Boom and Bust." The book is an eye-opener for anyone interested in the truth about the collapse of the housing market that played a major role in our financial market crisis.

The Housing Boom and Bust

Thomas Sowell | 28 April 2009
How both the Democrats and the Republicans ruined both the housing markets and the financial markets.

False Solutions and Real Problems: The Housing Crisis Revisited

Thomas Sowell | 16 March 2009
Like most political "solutions," the solution to the affordable housing "problem" took little or no account of the wider repercussions this would entail.

Lured To Disaster by "Affordable Housing"

Thomas Sowell | 21 January 2009
It is no longer the individual's responsibility to choose housing that fits within that limit. It is somehow the taxpayers' job to make up the difference, when someone chooses housing whose cost exceeds that magic number.

Re-arranging Deck Chairs on the Housing Titanic

John Charles Jr. | 29 August 2006
A central reason why housing is so expensive in Portland (and most other Oregon cities) is that the government has created an artificial shortage of homes through zoning and other types of land-use regulation.

The Human Price of California's Statist Housing Policies

Thomas Sowell | 31 August 2005
Newcomers have to pay outrageous prices for houses, while it is existing homeowners who vote for laws and policies that drive up housing costs by obstructing the building of new homes.

Housing Bubbles

James Glassman | 24 May 2005
Certainly, individual housing markets can suffer boom-and-bust cycles. (Look at Houston during the 1970s and California during the 1980s.) But real estate prices as a whole have been remarkably stable.

Housing Hurdles: The Solution?

Thomas Sowell | 5 February 2004
It is precisely the government which has made it virtually impossible to build affordable housing in places like coastal California and other places where there are severe land use restrictions, such as "open space" laws, as well as rent control and a crushing amount of red tape -- which ought to be called green tape, because of the environmental extremists behind much of it.

Housing Hurdles in California

Thomas Sowell | 4 February 2004
If people cannot afford even a one-bedroom apartment while making minimum wages, they certainly cannot afford it when they are unemployed -- and minimum wage laws have a track record around the world of increasing the unemployment rate.
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