Over the last year, many people have been grappling with the question of whether the economy sucks. Or, anyway, whether the economy was in good or bad shape before Trump hit it with a wrecking ball. This remains a question of enormous political importance. After we make it out of
Tools
When I started this newsletter, I wanted to occasionally publish "data explorers." These would be interactive tools for looking at data in different places and times. At the bottom of this post is the first of these tools. It is an interactive map showing the prevalence of household
Housing has gotten much more expensive in the last half century. We can learn a lot about how the rental market works by looking at who has borne that burden.
In this newsletter, I'll be sharing my research into the housing affordability crisis. I hope this will be a useful and accessible resource for people trying to understand why the housing market is so broken. I'm going to try to make one to three posts per