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Howard Husock is vice president for policy research at the Manhattan Institute, where he is also director of its Social Entrepreneurship Initiative. He is a City Journal contributing editor.
From 1987 through 2006, Husock served as director of case studies in public policy and management at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where he was also a fellow at the Hauser Center on Nonprofit Organizations. His publications on the nonprofit sector have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, National Affairs, Society Magazine, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Public Interest, and Townhall.com.
In addition, Mr. Husock has written widely on housing and urban policy, including in his book The Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy (Ivan R. Dee, 2003) and his monograph Repairing the Ladder: Toward a New Housing Policy Paradigm (Reason Foundation, 1996). His work has also appeared in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Philanthropy, and The Wilson Quarterly. Husock is a former broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker whose work at WGBH-TV in Boston won three Emmy awards. He is a graduate of the Boston University School of Public Communication and was a 1981–82 mid-career fellow at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Select Media
Articles/Op-eds
- The Solyndra-ization of Philanthropy, Wall Street Journal, 10-28-11
- Disaggregating Public Purposes, Society, 08-19-11
- Disaggregating Public Purposes, Society, 07-20-11
- Nonprofits Help Keep Civil Society Running, Washington Examiner, 03-09-11
- Non-Profits And The State, National Affairs, 12-22-10
- Reinventing Public Housing, Washington Times, 11-08-10
- Making Second Chance Act Work For More Former Prisoners, Washington Examiner, 07-28-10
- Racing To Save ShoreBank, Spawn Of CRA, Investor's Business Daily, 05-14-10
- A Perilous 'Rescue' for NYC Housing, New York Post, 03-17-10
- A Conservative Agenda For Cities, Washington Examiner, 02-24-10
- What Works: Highlighting Urban Reforms, State Policy Network News, 12-10-09
- Reinventing Public Housing: Is the Atlanta Model Right for Your City?, CitiesOnAHill.org, 12-07-09
- Government Takeovers: Is Charity Next?, Townhall.com, 10-29-09
- Housing As Busing, Forbes.com, 10-28-09
- Merits of a Virtual Fence, Washington Times, 10-19-09
- The Affordable-Housing Pact: A Flawed Remedy For Suburbs, The Journal News, 08-30-09
- Puffing The Projects, New York Post, 06-08-09
- Public Housing and Rental Subsidies, Cato Institute, 06-01-09
- Eating From the Hand That Bites You, Wall Street Journal, 04-24-09
- First rung on ladder to new life, The Australian News, 03-07-09
- Housing Goals We Can't Afford, The New York Times, 12-11-08
- Nobody Does it Better, Wall Street Journal, 10-24-08
- What Barney Frank Doesn't Grasp: Lending Mandates Hurt The Poor, Investor's Business Daily, 10-09-08
- About the Next Crisis, The New York Sun, 07-29-08
- Don't Blame Rangel for His Rent, The New York Sun, 07-14-08
- Prison To Work, New York Post, 05-20-08
- Bring Back Assimilation, The New York Sun, 05-13-08
- Leaving the House, The New York Sun, 04-01-08
- More Marriage Penalties, The New York Sun, 11-16-07
- A Bush-Clinton Idea, The New York Sun, 10-24-07
- Post-9/11 Bureaucracy, The New York Sun, 09-12-07
- What's Lost in the Move, Wall Street Journal, 08-31-07
- "Clean for Gene', The New York Sun, 08-08-07
- Sell the Buildings, Too, The New York Sun, 06-05-07
- Pretext for Lawsuits, The New York Sun, 05-01-07
- Gefilte Economics, The New York Sun, 04-04-07
- Subprime Lending Worth Keeping, RealClearPolitics, 03-11-07
- Privatization of Politics, The New York Sun, 02-28-07
- Pelz's Point, The New York Sun, 01-26-07
- Sins of Omission, , 10-18-06
- A Standing Oration, Wall Street Journal, 04-28-06
- Privatize the Welfare State, Wall Street Journal, 03-09-06
- Mayor Must Reconsider 'Affordable', The Boston Globe, 01-02-06
- Guns Are Butter, The New York Sun, 02-03-05
- Every Vote Can Be One of Confidence, The Boston Herald, 10-26-04
- Wasted Vote? There's No Such Thing, Los Angeles Times, 10-25-04
- Our Own Private Fannie?, Wall Street Journal, 09-27-04
- New Ideas People, Philanthropy Roundtable, 07-31-04
- Working Poor: Housing Hope, New York Post, 03-02-04
- Public housing developments bring Hope but history says projects call for caution, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 02-15-04
- Credit Where It's Not Due, Wall Street Journal, 02-10-04
- A Better Site Visit, Philanthropy Roundtable, 01-21-04
- Subsidy is Poor Foundation for Housing, The Boston Herald, 12-09-03
- A Housing Scam in Jeopardy, The New York Sun, 05-03-03
- Public Housing’s Hidden Costs to Cities, The New York Sun, 01-07-03
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- Mancur Olson and the Campaign
Society, July 2008
- The Assimilation Factor New York Sun, 05-13-08
- The Frozen City
New York Sun, 12-03-07
- Stock Market for Nonprofits Society Magazine, March/April
2007
- Sins
of Omission New York Sun, 10-18-06
- Nonprofit
and For-Profit: Blurring the Line The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 6-29-06
- When one door closes Times Picayune, 5-23-06
- Guns
Are Butter New York Sun, 2-3-05
- New
Ideas People Government inefficiency around the world motivates social entrepreneurs to find another way, Philanthropy Magazine,
July/August 2004
- A
Better Housing Reform New York Sun, 7-22-04
Testimony
Speeches
Books
City Journal articles
- Nathan Glazers Warning, Summer 2011
- The Urban Crisis After 40 Years, Summer 2011
- Three Bedrooms, One Tenant, 21 June 2011
- Atlantas Public-Housing Revolution, Autumn 2010
- Housing as Busing, Autumn 2009
- Project Phaseout, 20 September 2009
- Jane Jacobss Legacy, 31 July 2009
- Slums of Hope, Winter 2009
- Build Big, Mr. President, 23 January 2009
- Notes on the Election, 7 November 2008
- The Financial Crisis and the CRA, 30 October 2008
- Wall Street Explodes, 1 October 2008
- Uplifting the Dangerous Classes, Winter 2008
- Sin of Omission, 13 November 2007
- A Grand Tax-Code Bargain, 13 July 2007
- The Compassion Gap, 18 January 2007
- Liberal Blinders, 8 September 2006
- Jane Jacobs, 19162006, 27 April 2006 (updated from Winter 1994)
- Why Hollywood Loves Johnny Cashand not Merle Haggard, 13 January 2006
- New Philanthropists Talk Left, Act Right, Winter 2006
- Americas Most Successful Communist, Summer 2005
- Today, Guns Are Butter, 31 January 2005
- Reining in Housing Vouchers, 26 October 2004
- The Anti-war Hero, 30 July 2004
- The Housing Reform That Backfired, Summer 2004
- The Real Miracle, Spring 2004
- Hope on Housing Policy, 11 February 2004
- When They Say “Community,” Watch Your Wallet, 2 May 2003
- Real Public Housing Reform, Spring 2003
- Real Public Housing Reform, 12 February 2003
- How Public Housing Harms Cities, Winter 2003
- Crime-Wave Blues, Autumn 2002
- Housing Humbug, Autumn 2002
- Lion in a Jungle, Spring 2002
- A Public Housing Victory, 29 March 2002
- Don’t Hike Gotham’s Cab Fares, 26 February 2002
- Adios, San Fernando Valley, Autumn 2001
- Dont Let CDCs Fool You, Summer 2001
- The Frozen Neighborhood, Autumn 2000
- Lets End Housing Vouchers, Autumn 2000
- How Charlotte Is Revolutionizing Public Housing, Spring 2000
- The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities, Winter 2000
- A Model Park, Autumn 1999
- New Yorks Unsung Taxi Triumph, Autumn 1999
- Appalled by Sprawl?, Spring 1999
- How the Agency Saved My Father, Spring 1999
- Lets Break Up the Big Cities, Winter 1998
- We Dont Need Subsidized Housing, Winter 1997
- Enterprising Van Drivers Collide with Regulation, Winter 1996
- It's Time to Take Habitat for Humanity Seriously, Summer 1995
- Urban Iconoclast: Jane Jacobs Revisited, Winter 1994
- New Frontiers in Affordable Housing, Spring 1993
- Subsidizing Discrimination at Starrett City, Winter 1992
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