Ben Preis

A lot of the discourse in Europe is focused on short-term rentals, speculation, and immigration (!) Ironically, the EU Housing Task Force has made the shortage a key part of their platform, with great research on the 4.5 million unit shortage in the EU! publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

Excited to be joining the Roosevelt Institute as a Good Life Resident for Housing!

"I worry that there is misleading information coming directly from the D.C. government that may be confusing tenants about their rights." A loophole in D.C.'s new RENTAL Act that is further threatening TOPA protections for renters:

It's a shame that LLM's ruined the sentence construction of "X isn't Y -- it's Z." That sometimes a useful sentence construction but now I can't read it without thinking that an LLM wrote it.

Some days I feel like my job is just copy-editing AI slop that Very Important People have sent to me while pretending that it is their Very Good Work Product, and I am tired of it.

Very excited to contribute to #TheRooftop at from @futurelandhousing.bsky.social at New America. My piece discusses the roadblocks that face the diffusion of policy innovations in housing and how policy entrepreneurs can help overcome some of these barriers. www.newamerica.org/future-land-...

I am looking for a research assistant to work with me on the development of U.S. housing markets. Experience with ArcGIS, Stata useful. We build datasets that allow us to understand housing affordability, the impacts of transit and zoning, and more: rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FRS/jo...

After a tremendous year of work, I'm pleased to announce that the National Housing Crisis Task Force has released its State & Local Housing Action Plan. With 15 bold ideas to address the housing shortage, we hope this plan can help local leaders act now. nationalhousingcrisis.org/app/uploads/...

Californians... talk to me about SB750. Any analysis of the proposal and its potential impacts? @resnikoff.bsky.social @mnolangray.bsky.social

I know I'm not the first one to make the critique, but it is a sad state of affairs to celebrate a not-quite-monthly, nbhood-specific street closure when major cities all around the world close arterial roads every weekend. Just wish DC could get there.

Really excited to read this paper by a great group of scholars studying a critical issue as different forms of rental property ownership continues to be an issue vexing local communities.

Housing Policy Debate has opened a call for papers exploring the question "How does housing policy impact the racial wealth gap?"  (1/2)

Maybe billionaires buying newspapers wasn't the best solution to the local news crisis.

Does anyone know of a database of which states/localities offer tax abatements/exemptions for affordable housing - and what those abatement requirements are? @yfreemark.bsky.social @cbgoodman.co maybe you know of something?

I created a Starter Pack to help our economic development friends find each other. Join the conversation and help spread tbr word!

Excited to have Pittsburgh data-provider and holder of the historical knowledge Chris Briem over here.

As someone working on creating some state and local housing policy explainers, I'm pretty interested in this question myself!

New Research Thread🧵: We examine the spatial patterns and eviction rates of single-family landlords in the Twin Cities. We find Private Equity firms and REITs each have their own distinct geographies and evict tenants at higher rates than smaller landlords. 1/

Want to contribute to Transit Explorer (www.thetransportpolitic.com/transitexplo...) & Atlas of Sustainable Transport (itdp.org/publication/...)? @itdp-hq.bsky.social has a $2,500 RFP out for folks who know how to map. If you're interested, check out the link: oneitdp.sharepoint.com/:w:/s/Sustai...

How long can an article be "Awaiting Final Decision" before it becomes appropriate to email a journal editor?

🎉🎉 Let me use my first post here to announce that my first dissertation paper has been accepted to the Annals of the AAG. Pre-print forthcoming to my website, and hopefully published by AAG soon! 🎉🎉