Alex Armlovich

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Articles

Leveraging LIHTC for housing abundance

Jan 21, 2025 | niskanencenter.org | Alex Armlovich |Christopher S. Elmendorf |Sam Jacobson

Americans are riled up about the cost of housing. For the first time in living memory, housing affordability figured prominently in a presidential campaign — and for good reason. Research shows that housing supply in U.S. metro areas has become progressively less elastic over time.
After legislative failure, Gov. Shapiro should ensure transit funding success

Oct 28, 2024 | inquirer.com | Jon Geeting |Alex Armlovich

Gov. Josh Shapiro and Senate Republicans in the General Assembly have failed to reach a deal on critical transit funding before the end of the legislative session. Without a solution, the commonwealth’s 57 transit agencies — carrying almost a million daily passengers — face double-digit service cuts and fare increases. Fortunately, the governor still has several powerful levers he can pull to provide much — though not necessarily all — of the funding.
Op-ed: Exit strategy: The case for single-stair egress

May 9, 2024 | niskanencenter.org | Alex Armlovich

This article originally appeared in Architectural Record on May 9, 2024. American land-use reformers intent on addressing present-day housing shortages have, for the last decade, focused their efforts on amending zoning codes—the very rules that gradually downzoned most urban land in the U.S., effectively outlawing multifamily housing, spurring suburban sprawl, and fanning the current crisis.
Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress

May 9, 2024 | architecturalrecord.com | Alex Armlovich |A Washington |Alex Armlovich lives

American land-use reformers intent on addressing present-day housing shortages have, for the last decade, focused their efforts on amending zoning codes—the very rules that gradually downzoned most urban land in the U.S., effectively outlawing multifamily housing, spurring suburban sprawl, and fanning the current crisis.
In which I learn what a chassis requirement is

Feb 28, 2024 | huntsvillehousing.substack.com | Cathy Reisenwitz |Alex Armlovich

I’m a big fan of Andrew Justus, , and, which employs them (and a bunch of other friends of mine). I’m also fan of manufactured homes, from the trailers of Huntsville to the modular homes of the Bay Area.
Op-Ed: People are worrying about the wrong downtowns

Nov 7, 2023 | niskanencenter.org | Alex Armlovich

This article was originally published in the Atlantic on November 1, 2023. “Urban doom loop.” “Office real estate apocalypse.” Today, anyone who reads business news has seen dire predictions for America’s downtown commercial towers, which emptied out when the coronavirus arrived and remain under-occupied three and a half years later. Most coverage centers on the most expensive big cities, such as New York.
Written testimony: For the 2023 joint legislative budget hearing on housing

Mar 1, 2023 | niskanencenter.org | Alex Armlovich

My name is Alex Armlovich, Senior Housing Policy Analyst at the Niskanen Center, a nonpartisan think tank promoting an open society with strong markets and a robust welfare state. Though I remotely lead a Washington, DC-based housing policy team, I am a lifelong Empire Stater, originally from the southtowns of Buffalo, a graduate of the University of Rochester, and now a homeowner in Queens. My team is part of the NY Neighbors coalition.