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

Ryssdal, Kai and Maria Hollenhorst. “Why the cost of infrastructure is so hard to track,” Marketplace, June 29, 2026. https://www.marketplace.org/story/2026/06/29/why-the-cost-of-infrastructure-is-so-hard-to-track

Carley, Sanya, Alexandra Klass, Alison Knasin, David Knosky, and Shelley Welton. “Energy costs are high and unaffordable – what utilities, governments, communities and you can do to help save consumers money,” The Conversation, June 17, 2026. https://theconversation.com/energy-costs-are-high-and-unaffordable-what-utilities-governments-communities-and-you-can-do-to-help-save-consumers-money-283862

Bologna, Giacoma, Hayes Gardner and Emily Opilo. “Most cities have an underground web of electric wires. Baltimore’s is unlike any other,” Baltimore Banner, June 13, 2026. https://www.thebanner.com/community/local-news/baltimore-unique-conduit-ownership-USXARRDZHREULFWQOQPYTP2IE4/

Nyugen, Maya. “Where are all the subways?” The New York Times, June 3, 2026. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/headway/public-transit-subways-construction-united-states.html

Fechter, Joshua. “Bigger price tag, smaller footprint: How Austin’s Project Connect went off the rails.” The Texas Tribune, May 21, 2026. https://www.texastribune.org/2026/05/21/austin-project-connect-texas-light-rail-public-transportation/

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

Karma, Rogé. “The Real Reason California Can’t Build” The Atlantic, March 12, 2026. https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026/03/california-housing-yimby-reforms/686334/

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

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

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

Podcasts

“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

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

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

Goldwyn, Eric. “Reform Funding to Encourage Early Transit Planning.” Institute for Progress, 2026. https://ifp.org/reform-funding-to-encourage-early-transit-planning/

Chitti, Marco and Leah Brooks. “Speeding Up the Bus: Reality Behind the Rhetoric.” Vital City, 2026. https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/bus-speed-traffic-management-nyc/

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/