What makes housing expensive? The problem isn’t lack of space—it is that not enough homes are being built. Housing can be made more affordable by reducing regulations and restrictions on building houses and allowing nonhomeowners more of a say in how their community will look.

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Additional resources:

Read “How to Make Housing More Affordable,” by David Henderson. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/howm....

Read “Roofs or Ceilings?” by Milton Friedman and George Stigler. Available here: https://fee.org/resources/roofsorce....

Watch “The Economics of House Hunting Envy,” on PolicyEd. Available here: https://www.policyed.org/intellection....

Watch “Addressing the Housing Crisis” on PolicyEd. Available here: https://www.policyed.org/perspectives....

Read “Only in California: Where ‘Affordable Housing’ Costs More Than FiveStar Luxury,” by Lee Ohanian. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/only....

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