Op-Eds

Elmendorf, Chris, and Ed Glaeser. “California Forever Needs a New Approval Process.” Los Angeles Times, December 1, 2025. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-12-01/california-forever-regulatory-streamlining

Press Citations

Chait, Jonathan. “The Coming Democratic Civil War.” The Atlantic, May 2025. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/abundance-democrats-political-power/682929/

Conor Dougherty. “The Housing Strategy That Has California NIMBYs in a Corner” The New York Times, November 20, 2025. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/business/economy/california-housing-nimby.html

Karma, Rogé. “The Real Reason California Can’t Build” The Atlantic, March 2026. https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026/03/california-housing-yimby-reforms/686334/

McNichols, Joshua. “Could Light Rail Across Lake Washington Make Seattle the Next Copenhagen?” KUOW, March 25, 2026. https://www.kuow.org/stories/could-light-rail-across-lake-washington-turn-seattle-into-the-next-copenhagen

Mendoza , Eduardo and Seawell, Joshua. “More Beautiful Los Angeles.” Los Angeles Times, March 11, 2026. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-03-11/more-beautiful-los-angeles

Podcasts

Elmendorf, Chris, Clayton Nall, and Stan Oklobdzija. “The Folk Economics of Housing.” AEA Research Highlights, American Economic Association, 2025. https://www.aeaweb.org/research/housing-supply-folk-econ

Elmendorf, Chris. “Why NIMBYs Hate Housing.” The Argument, [date]. https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/why-nimbys-hate-housing

“Chris Elmendorf on Aesthetics, Developers, and Housing Politics.” Everybody Gets Pie Podcast, March 12, 2026. Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chris-elmendorf-on-aesthetics-developers-housing-politics/id1835658537?i=1000754886101

Brooks, Leah. Guest appearance on The Big Dig. WGBH. https://www.wgbh.org/podcasts/the-big-dig

Video

Justine Underhill. What ACTUALLY Changes People’s Minds About Housing (real experiment). YouTube, March 11, 2026. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCKrQ48MULE

Blog

Brooks, Leah, and Jenny Schuetz. “Where 20 Years of New Housing Was Built in Washington, D.C.—and Where It Wasn’t.” Brookings Metro, 2023. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/where-20-years-of-new-housing-was-built-in-washington-dc-and-where-it-wasnt/