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Eric Kober

Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute

is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of the recent report, Overcoming Exclusionary Zoning: What New York State Should Do.

Opinion
Opinion

How the state can make suburbs affordable

New proposals represent progress on suburban affordable housing, but are insufficiently ambitious.

  • By Eric Kober

New York City
Opinion

Housing can’t be totally solved by the federal government

Some of the Democratic presidential candidates believe the housing crisis can be solved through federal action. Here’s what they get right, get wrong and can’t do, according to retired New York City planner and current NYU visiting scholar Eric Kober.

  • By Eric Kober

New York City
Opinion

Instead of fighting landlords, state legislators should fight to increase housing

Tighter rent regulation could exacerbate the shortage of rental housing available to new in-migrants. Instead, New York should force high-rent communities to allow more new housing, writes Eric Kober, a retired New York City planner and visiting scholar at NYU.

  • By Eric Kober