Breaking Barriers to Build More Housing

Edward Glaeser, the Harvard Economics Professor, makes the case to build higher and denser

This interview shares perspectives on the many facets of the housing debate including the people being left out of the opportunity to access housing, barriers to building, and opportunities that innovative policy can create. Glaeser, the author of “Triumph of the City” and the forthcoming “Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation,” pushes cities and policy makers to come together to make building easier to better serve our current and future housing needs through “genius policy.”

Read this interview conducted by Jay Caspian Kang to reflect on this question and inform your thinking on supporting housing development.