Affordable Housing for All? A Policy Discussion

The rent is too damn high in New York City. But why is it so high? Who is most affected by it? And what should we do? Is high rent simply a measure of a city's success? A scourge for the poor? Are the affordable housing initiatives of the De Blasio administration simple justice? A wasteful program driven by politics? These and other questions will be addressed.

Welcome and Introduction

Provost John Coatsworth, Columbia University

Panelists

Carl Weisbrod, Chairman of the New York City Planning Commission

Gilles Duranton, Dean's Chair in Real Estate Professor, Wharton

Ingrid Gould Ellen, Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, NYU

Moderated by Donald R. Davis, Professor of Economics and Chair, Columbia University Economics

For more information, please visit http://econ.columbia.edu/affordable-housing-all-policy-discussion

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Columbia University and the Urban Economics Association, with generous funding and support from the Office of the Provost at Columbia University, the Program in Economic Research at Columbia University, the Sustainable Development PhD program at the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate at Columbia Business School.