Expanding Affordable Housing Supply without Legislation: A Plan for Scaling Community-Owned Housing
7/23/26
Dave Uejio explains the potential for presidents to unlock growth of community-owned housing today to address America’s housing crisis.
Our Work
Many people in the United States are frustrated at the high cost of housing. In recent years, there has been a lively policy debate about how to make housing more affordable.
VPA’s research and work on housing takes an all-of-the-above framework for making housing more affordable: from an industrial policy that would help stimulate housing construction to public options for housing, tax policies, and market-shaping regulations that would prevent abuses of power.
War Housing
7/23/26
Christopher Serkin and Daniel Sharfstein recount the history of the federal government’s actions during World War II to address the acute housing needs with bold and innovative actions.
Post-Neoliberal Housing Policy
4/22/25
Ganesh Sitaraman and Christopher Serkin make the case for a post-neoliberal agenda for housing policy.
28 Post-Neoliberal Housing Policy Ideas
4/22/25
Ganesh Sitaraman and Christopher Serkin offer a series of proposals to address the affordable housing crisis.