Online registration for this event is closed. Walk-in registrations will be accepted. Despite the recent drop in house prices, too much of America's housing remains unaffordable to the ordinary homebuyer. While genuine poverty accounts for some of the problem, even middle-class Americans--especially along the country’s east and...

A radical rethinking of housing policy is needed to allow housing markets to operate freely--and to make housing affordable and plentiful for the middle class and the poor.

The current housing crisis provides an opportunity to rethink federal housing policies aimed at housing affordability.

Federal housing policy should ensure thatAmerica's poorare able to live in decent housing, and should address the high housing costs facing many middle-income Americans.