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Building the Future: Fixing the Global Housing Crisis

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Joel Kotkin

Wendell Cox

By Joel Kotkin, Wendell Cox and RealClearInvestigations

6/10/2025Updated: 6/10/2025

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The affordable housing crisis in America and many other advanced countries keeps getting worse because it is largely dominated by the wrong voices talking about the wrong places.

Joel Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Urban Reform Institute. He is the author of “The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class.”

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