April 2, 2026 • Commentary
Georgia won’t lower cost of housing until state tackles the ‘regulatory tax’
Permitting and design standards are among the factors making it more expensive for builders to construct new homes.
Topic: Great Recession
November 7, 2025 • Commentary
It’s not who owns homes. It’s how few we build.
The real housing problem isn't who owns the home. It's that we don't build enough.
November 6, 2025
Institutional Investors and Housing Affordability in Metro Atlanta
Georgia Public Policy Foundation examines the role of corporate buyers in housing affordability and homeownership trends.
August 14, 2025
Four Decades of QBE: Georgia’s Education Funding Formula and Its Challenges
For nearly four decades, funding for Georgia public education has been provided by a program known as Quality Basic Education, and commonly referred to as QBE.
July 31, 2025 • Commentary
Georgia’s housing supply isn’t meeting demand
Georgia is adding people faster than it’s adding places for them to live. What has that meant?
July 29, 2025
Short Supply: How Many More Homes Does Georgia Need?
Georgia is growing fast—adding more than a million new residents each decade. But housing construction hasn’t kept pace.
May 9, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: May 9, 2025
Some of the most significant innovations in technology have become common to the point of monotony in only a few decades.
January 2, 2025 • Commentary
A quarter century of change
With 2024’s close, a quarter of the years beginning with “20” are now complete.
September 6, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: September 6, 2024
States should take charge of their own policies, fostering innovation and better results.
August 30, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: August 30, 2024
Labor Day weekend gives us an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of the American worker.
August 23, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: August 23, 2024
Georgia’s teacher pension is not out of the woods and still poses a major risk of unexpected runaway costs.
August 22, 2024 • Commentary
Market correction shows the need for reform for Georgia’s teacher pension
Georgia’s teacher pension is not out of the woods and still poses a major risk of unexpected runaway costs.
August 16, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: August 16, 2024
If the individual provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expire at the end of next year, tax filing will get more complicated for millions of Americans.
August 14, 2024 • Commentary
We don’t do hard things anymore
Those who want homes that are more affordable, electricity that remains reliable, and roads that are less congested should speak up.
June 26, 2024 • Commentary
Trump and Biden should address our national debt
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump hold their first presidential debate in Atlanta this week.
May 24, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: May 24, 2024
This weekend, we pause to remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice in defending our great nation.
April 19, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: April 19, 2024
The federal student loan program is a mess.
April 17, 2024 • Blog
We aren’t building enough houses. Why?
Regulations limit home building by making it costlier and more time-consuming, and by requiring new homes to be larger and made with more expensive materials.
October 25, 2023 • Commentary
Washington runs historically abnormal deficits
2023 was the third straight fiscal year that Washington has run historically abnormal deficits while Georgia ran historically abnormal surpluses.
May 31, 2023 • Commentary
Washington remains a long way from fiscal sanity
It’s clear that Washington will remain a long way from being fiscally responsible no matter how the debt ceiling standoff is resolved.
May 3, 2023 • Commentary
Government regulations a costly barrier to home construction
Regulations at the federal, state and local levels account for about one-fourth of the cost of a new home.
September 8, 2022 • Commentary
For Housing Affordability, Sharing Can Be The Answer
There’s a solution for the housing affordability crisis out there, for anyone who actually wants to do something about it.
June 24, 2022 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 24, 2022
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.” –Albert Einstein “The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues […]
June 8, 2022 • Blog
Supply Problems and Rising Home Prices
Rising home prices are a multi-faceted issue requiring multiple solutions. First, government officials should quit making homes pricier than than need be.
May 12, 2022 • Blog
How to Reduce Student Borrowing
The best way to reduce student borrowing may be to stop telling students they won’t have to pay back their loans.
April 7, 2022 • Blog
Gold Dome Turnover
You can find politicians who stay in office too long, but you won’t find many of them in the Georgia General Assembly.
April 1, 2022 • Commentary
The Myth of Underfunding
Opponents of Promise Scholarships and similar programs perpetuate the myth that they are a tool to defund public school education.
February 8, 2022 • Blog
What Makes Georgia Homes so Unaffordable?
More than one-quarter of the cost of a new home in Georgia is made up of government regulation and fees.
January 31, 2022
Government Regulation in the Price of a New Home: Georgia
Housing prices are rocketing skyward, and one factor contributing to the rise is the cost of regulation to build a new single-family home.
January 28, 2022 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 28, 2022
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.” – Charles de Montesquieu “How strangely will the […]
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