John Locke Foundation

The “affordability crisis” is arguably shaping up to be the top issue for this election season.

But what makes stuff cost more?

It only makes sense to identify the cause of rising prices first in order to combat them.

The affordability crisis in one page Politicians promise they’ll make stuff cost less, but if they can’t articulate the cause of the problem, they can’t be trusted to solve it.

Young families, workers, and retirees all need more housing supply. Removing government barriers is the proven path to lower costs.

An important step toward housing abundance in North Carolina North Carolina’s housing affordability crisis is fundamentally a supply problem. Demand continues to grow as people and businesses move to the state, but housing production has struggled to keep pace. The result has been rising home prices, increasing rents, and declining affordability in communit...