So, they tend to use federal funding to reward housing policies they like. One example of the kind of bold federal law that some point to as a model has nothing to do with housing. In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, Harvard economist Edward Glaeser argued that the next administration should implement a housing construction law that follows the model of the Drinking Age Act. Metcalf, who also pointed to the drinking age law as a model for a housing mandate, conceded that the politics of it would be tricky. "The key question would be whether Congress has overstepped the blurry line between inducement and coercion," Hemel told Business Insider.

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Persons: —, Ronald Reagan, Edward Glaeser, Glaeser, Ben Metcalf, Kamala Harris's, Metcalf, Daniel Hemel Organizations: Service, Business, Republican, New York Times, Harvard, Terner Center, Housing Innovation, UC Berkeley, Democratic, New York University, Hemel Locations: Washington