FREOPP’s approach is unapologetically market-oriented, but it is not indifferent to the real, everyday pain families are feeling.
Housing
The best pathway to housing affordability is housing abundance. Americans need more housing of all shapes and sizes to meet their diverse needs. That’s critical to restoring homeownership, a central component of the American Dream.
America’s growing housing crisis is a self-inflicted wound, stemming from harmful zoning regulations that infringe on individual property rights and curtail housing supply. Unaffordable housing is making it harder to start and grow a family, stay in someone’s community, and live where they want.
The path to housing abundance begins with removing burdensome regulations that stop developers from building the homes communities want and need. It also includes ensuring speedy permitting and providing certainty for developers.
All Housing
The housing shortage is a case study of unfortunate regulatory success, not failure: a ruthlessly effective system doing what it was designed to do.
Innovative solutions could create a better and more sustainable system to facilitate ownership
Recommendations for the next administration and the 119th Congress
‘Yes-in-my-backyard’ reforms can increase the supply of housing and bring prices down.
By restoring a market with organic supply and demand, we can reduce the cost of living for tens of millions of Americans.
The need for smarter regulation is increasingly apparent, across the political spectrum.
The Senate Budget Committee recommends consolidating housing assistance so we can better help those in need.