Housing Production Strategies

Description

Today, we will examine a range of housing production strategies, many that involve public-private partnerships or incentives to deliver affordable housing. We’ll also talk about the Opportunity Zone program which leverages tax benefits to investors for investments in eligible underinvested neighborhoods.

Learning Goals

Understand why governments might incentivize capital investment in distressed neighborhoods.
Critically engage with policy debates regarding the benefits and costs of place-based capital incentives.