Howard Husock [49 titles]

1. Housing as Busing
   With a Westchester decision, the feds decree that neighborhoods must seek minority residents.
   Autumn 2009
2. Project Phaseout
   Selling New York’s vast public-housing stock would generate enormous revenues and help the poor.
   20 September 2009
3. Jane Jacobs’s Legacy
   Her once-controversial vision of the vitality of neighborhood life—including that of the slums—has enjoyed posthumous success.
   31 July 2009
4. Slums of Hope
   For displaced peasants, the world’s vast urban ghettos are a gateway to a better future.
   Winter 2009
5. Build Big, Mr. President
   Obama should look past mere improvements and plan transformative infrastructure projects.
   23 January 2009
6. Notes on the Election
   City Journal writers reflect on Tuesday’s results and on the implications of an Obama presidency.
   7 November 2008
7. The Financial Crisis and the CRA
   A generation ago, the government began forcing banks to make bad loans.
   30 October 2008
8. Wall Street Explodes
   Background reading from City Journal’s writers
   1 October 2008
9. Uplifting the “Dangerous Classes”
   What Charles Loring Brace’s philanthropy can teach us today
   Winter 2008
10. Sin of Omission
    Charles Rangel’s tax proposal ignores a marriage penalty for the poor.
    13 November 2007
11. A Grand Tax-Code Bargain
    How to boost poverty relief and cut taxes
    13 July 2007
12. The Compassion Gap
    Conservatives give more to charities than liberals do—by a long shot.
    18 January 2007
13. Liberal Blinders
    The author of a new book on public housing ignores his own evidence.
    8 September 2006
14. Jane Jacobs, 1916–2006
    New York’s indispensable urban iconoclast
    27 April 2006 (updated from Winter 1994)
15. Why Hollywood Loves Johnny Cash—and not Merle Haggard
    It’s the Man in Black’s politics
    13 January 2006
16. New Philanthropists Talk Left, Act Right
    Individual uplift, not social change, is their keynote.
    Winter 2006
17. America’s Most Successful Communist
    It was no surprise last year when rock stars, led by Bruce Springsteen, barnstormed battleground states for John Kerry, and no surprise that, save for a handful of country singers, George W. Bush could count on no similar support from pop performers.
    Summer 2005
18. Today, Guns Are Butter
    The Dems’ criticism of the Bush budget doesn’t wash.
    31 January 2005
19. Reining in Housing Vouchers
    New York at last takes steps to reform its dependency fostering public housing system.
    26 October 2004
20. The Anti-war Hero
    Opposition and protest, not mature leadership, have defined John Kerry’s political career.
    30 July 2004
21. The Housing Reform That Backfired
    “Section 8” vouchers were supposed to revolutionize subsidized housing—but only expanded it.
    Summer 2004
22. The Real Miracle
    Boston might be the world’s only city where a winter afternoon showing of Miracle, the Disney movie about the 1980s U.S. Olympic gold-medal hockey team, sells out.
    Spring 2004
23. Hope on Housing Policy
    President Bush’s new housing voucher plan aims to move families up and out of assisted housing.
    11 February 2004
24. When They Say “Community,” Watch Your Wallet
    The Bush administration’s dividend tax cut proposal showed up the Low Income Housing Tax Credit as a sham.
    2 May 2003
25. Real Public Housing Reform
    The Bush administration’s plans are quietly revolutionary.
    Spring 2003
26. Real Public Housing Reform
    The Bush administration’s plans are quietly revolutionary.
    12 February 2003
27. How Public Housing Harms Cities
    It’s time to phase out housing projects. Whether old-fashioned or newfangled, they blight surrounding neighborhoods and prevent them from reviving.
    Winter 2003
28. Crime-Wave Blues
    This summer, we moved our musician son to Clarksdale, a small town in the north Mississippi Delta, famous for its blues lore.
    Autumn 2002
29. Housing Humbug
    Advocates are proclaiming a hokey new crisis in affordable housing to a gullible press.
    Autumn 2002
30. Lion in a Jungle
    Singapore was bound to become a target for Islamic terrorists.
    Spring 2002
31. A Public Housing Victory
    The Supreme Court helps restore the social order in poor neighborhoods.
    29 March 2002
32. Don’t Hike Gotham’s Cab Fares
    Why Bloomberg’s plan is wrong.
    26 February 2002
33. Adios, San Fernando Valley
    The drive to break up Los Angeles into smaller cities is gaining ground
    Autumn 2001
34. Don’t Let CDCs Fool You
    The much-touted community development corporations are just the War on Poverty by another—highly misleading—name.
    Summer 2001
35. The Frozen Neighborhood
    If Harlem’s spokesmen get their way, the neighborhood will always be poor.
    Autumn 2000
36. Let’s End Housing Vouchers
    The politically popular Section 8 program ruins neighborhoods and perpetuates poverty.
    Autumn 2000
37. How Charlotte Is Revolutionizing Public Housing
    Getting in synch with welfare reform, this housing authority now makes assistance temporary, not a way of life.
    Spring 2000
38. The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities
    The Community Reinvestment Act funnels billions to left-wing activists, while threatening to destabilize lower-middle-class neighborhoods.
    Winter 2000
39. A Model Park
    One of the best new things that's happened in Boston in years is Post Office Square Park.
    Autumn 1999
40. New York’s Unsung Taxi Triumph
    Everyone thinks Gotham’s taxi system is a prime case of government regulation gone mad. In fact, with quiet addition of some free-market magic, the system works fine. Here’s why.
    Autumn 1999
41. Appalled by Sprawl?
    Happily, critics haven't given a free ride to Vice President Al Gore's campaign to limit 'suburban sprawl.'
    Spring 1999
42. How the Agency Saved My Father
    His mother was dead; his ne’er-do-well father couldn’t support him; an Agency put him into foster care at age nine. My quest to find out why and how yielded surprises—and public policy questions for today.
    Spring 1999
43. Let’s Break Up the Big Cities
    Joining the five boroughs into one big metropolis 100 years ago was a big mistake. Here’s why smaller is more efficient and more democratic.
    Winter 1998
44. We Don’t Need Subsidized Housing
    Why has this perenially seductive idea never worked out in reality? These are the powerful reasons why housing subsidies always do more harm than good.
    Winter 1997
45. Enterprising Van Drivers Collide with Regulation
    Commuters in Queens and Brooklyn love their private van services, better than the public-sector alternative. Guess who hates them.
    Winter 1996
46. It's Time to Take Habitat for Humanity Seriously
    Corny, yes; but Habitat might soon be the nation’s biggest home builder—and its formula for housing the poor makes sense.
    Summer 1995
47. Urban Iconoclast: Jane Jacobs Revisited
    Winter 1994
48. New Frontiers in Affordable Housing
    Homeownership for Low-Income New Yorkers
    Spring 1993
49. Subsidizing Discrimination at Starrett City
    How government subsidies fostered racial discrimination at a Brooklyn housing complex.
    Winter 1992

America’s Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy
by Howard Husock