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Local Housing Cost Trend Charts with Overview/Commentary, 2003-04
Getting More from Affordable Housing Subsidies in Chicago (Proposal Excerpts), with Dr. Joseph Hoereth and Karl Bradley, Summer 2004 
The Crisis in Housing -- Thinking the Unthinkable (Loyola University Report with highlights for emphasis), Arthur Lyons and Jason Hardy, 2004 
Capital Required for Alternative Rent Subsidies a comparison of costs for creating affordable housing in existing quality housing vs. newly developed housing, January 2004 
Gentrification & Affordable Housing in Rogers Park, Community of Change – Community of Opportunity, with Kale Williams, Chris Giangreco, December 2002 
Potential Strategies for Preserving Affordable Housing in Rogers Park, with Kale Williams, May 2002 
Community Land Trusts: Problems & Possibilities in Chicago, October 2001 
Affordable Housing Needs/Solutions (Parts 1 & 2 authored with Kale Williams), Summer 2001 
The Excessive Costs of Creative Finance: Growing Inefficiencies in the Production of Low-Income Housing, Michael Stegman, 1991 (from Housing Policy Debate), author warns of problem and accurately predicts trends in system 
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Increasing Affordable Housing Opportunities with Existing Subsidies, a summary of strategies that could be the basis of bi-partisan legislative, regulatory or programmatic reform, February 2005
The Ownership Society and a New Paradigm for Using Debt & Subsidies for Affordable Housing, January 2005, an  essay making case for reform
Inclusionary Housing Ordinance Testimony, Chicago City Council Housing Committee, January 2005
City Council Testimony for Chicago City Budget, December 2004
Illinois Affordable Housing Task Force, Housing Innovations Subcommittee Report and Questions for committee, November 2004
Comments to Housing Affordability Conference, November 2003
Change That Benefits Families: A Pathway to Housing Reform and Innovation, May 2003
Gov. Blagojevich Housing Transition Team Policy Recommendations, December 2002
TIF-Supported Affordable Housing In Gentrifying Communities, Concept Paper, October 2002
Affordable Housing Insanity, A Satirical Recap of Changing Semantics in Community Development, November 2002
Lessons Learned in Community Development (Talking Points for LaSalle Bank Forum), December 1996
The Hoax & the Promise, The Curse of the 1991 Affordable Housing Act (Proposal Excerpt), June 1996
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