Fixing the American housing crisis will require constructing more houses, but also increasing subsidies and protections for existing tenants.

Ingrid Ellen
Ingrid Gould Ellen is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Faculty Director of the NYU Furman Center. She is the author of Sharing America’s Neighborhoods: The Prospects for Stable Racial Integration (Harvard University Press, 2000) and editor of The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates about Housing, Segregation, and Opportunity (Columbia University Press, 2019).