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Edward Glaeser: What's Hampering American Housing?

Edward Glaeser: What's Hampering American Housing?

Update: 2025-07-08
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Today on Political Economy, I’m talking with Edward Glaeser about the problem with American housing supply and the many hurdles to building affordable homes. Ed and I look at the past century of urban and suburban construction and the attitudes and policies that have held back the US housing market.

Ed is the chair of the economics department at Harvard University, where he has been a professor since 1992. He is also a visiting senior fellow here at AEI where his research focuses on urban economic policy. His most recent co-authored paper, “America’s Housing Supply Problem: The Closing of the Suburban Frontier?” is published in the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Edward Glaeser: What's Hampering American Housing?

Edward Glaeser: What's Hampering American Housing?