Episode

Is Bad Housing Policy Making Poverty Worse? (24:27)

Housing policy plays a critical role in shaping poverty in America, influencing both the availability of affordable housing and the stability of low-income communities. With skyrocketing housing costs, inadequate affordable housing options, and policies that often fail to address the root causes of poverty, millions of Americans continue to struggle with housing instability. In this episode, Emily Hamilton, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Urbanity Project at the Mercatus Center and Tracy Hadden Loh, Fellow at the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking at the Brookings Institution, discuss whether bad housing policy is making poverty worse.