After spending a couple of years working in local government housing policy, I am temporarily exiting the bureaucracy to gather some more student debt from a program in New York.
Fundamentally, I believe that providing everyone a home is both a moral imperative for a just society, and importantly, achievable with the correct approach at federal and local levels. Unfortunately, there are many issues and inefficiencies with housing policy at all levels of government and often these problems are esoteric and puzzling. As such, they are regularly misrepresented, which of course makes them widely and wildly misunderstood.
I will use this platform to dissect housing policy at the federal and local levels, try to reconcile some debates, and document how various approaches social housing may or may not be well-suited to ending homelessness and eliminating housing cost burden.
Subscriptions will simply assist me with paying my own rent while in grad school, though I think that most of my posts will be free.