It’s hard to know where to start in addressing our complex affordable housing problem. Here are three places we can focus our attention.

Converting NIMBY’s to YIMBY’s involves addressing their fears systematically.

My experience having affordable housing down the street was that it had no effect on my property value. But the plural of anecdote is not data. What the data shows about the impact of affordable housing on property values may surprise you.

Call it “affordable” housing. Call it “workforce” housing. We don’t have enough of it. That causes big problems not just for those who need it, but for all of us.

Part 2 of my story on the power — and the limitations — of nonintuitive advice. What’s the best advice you ever got?.

It’s advice-giving season in the US as families come together to share food and ideas. Here’s some of my favorite advice, prepared in two appetizing servings….

More and more people want to work from home. This saves them time and may even allow them to produce more work. But, increasingly, it appears innovation may suffer.

In the competition for where people will work in the future, one arrangement is clearly winning: hybrid work. Is this a good thing for employees? For employers? What the data shows about hybrid work, and where we may be going in the future.

Pandemic, schmandemic. Workfromhome, schmurkfromhome. The US work world may have changed forever during COVID-19, but in places across the world, it’s back to the office, business almost as usual.

The office building has been a staple of American worklife for decades. The pandemic changed that. Now the bills are coming due. Something’s gotta give.

You can win a lot more games quietly swinging for singles than you can just going for homers.

We don’t have nearly enough people to build, rebuild or fix our homes, hospitals and businesses. The shortage is one we created. It’s time to get serious about fixing it.