NYU Law Forum: The Housing Affordability Crisis

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

The housing affordability crisis that has long dominated policy debates in New York City and other high-cost areas across the country is now a major issue in the presidential election. At this Forum, experts explored what the federal government’s role in making housing more affordable could and should be.

Panelists will discussed what policy choices are best made at the federal rather than state or local level (which also implicates what obligations states have to control their local governments’ land use decisions).

They also assessed current proposals for federal interventions, along with other ideas that probably should be on the agenda. Participants in this program offered a range of views about the legal, financial, and implementation risks and opportunities the proposed policies pose, as well as the effects they might have on the allocation of power between the federal and state governments and on the political process.

Participants

Louise Carroll, Partner and Co-Chair of the Affordable Housing and Community Development Practice, Katten Muchin Rosenman

Andrew Fine, Chief of Staff and Policy Director, Open New York

Lucy Joffe, Associate Commissioner for Housing Policy, New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development

Donald H. Layton, Senior Visiting Fellow from Practice, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, NYU

Moderator

Vicki Been ’83, Judge Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law, NYU Law; Faculty Director, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, NYU