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December 2025

A New Year's Update from the Boyd Institute
Three updates you should know — new sprint, new president, and new fundraising
 • Jeff Giesea and The Boyd Institute
Boyd Housing Anthology
Highlighting eight more out-of-the-box housing solutions from our essay contest.
 • The Boyd Institute
The NIMBY Buyout Plan (Essay Contest Winner)
How turning land-use vetoes into tradable rights can solve the housing crisis.
 • Nathan Smith
Contact Tracing for Crime — Unlocking the Frozen City
The second-place essay in our contest, authored by The Calipers
 • The Calipers
Housing as a Capital Markets Problem
The third-place essay in our contest, authored by Mike Fellman
 • Mike Fellman
Announcement: Essay Contest Winners
And our schedule for posting the essays
 • The Boyd Institute
8 More Housing "Ground Truths"
On financialization, cap rates, market frictions, whether there's a crisis, supply constraints, YIMBYism, spatial misallocations, and human capital…
 • William Miller
Weekly Roundup #13
Housing | Office-to residential, gentrification, California Forever, & more
 • The Boyd Institute and William Miller
Thirteen Housing Policies to Save the Middle | Part 4
Proposals optimized for the success of young, productive, middle-income, family-forming households
 • William Miller and Peter Banks
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