The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act

A Policy Meme Codified Earlier this year, we commented on “housing affordability” as a new and powerful policy meme. Policy memes emerge when the complex work of defining an issue and assessing its importance happens organically as ideas evolve and coalesce, often into catchphrases that carry far more meaning in the current environment than they would if dropped nakedly into...

A New Housing Policy Meme

“Memetics” was a theory launched by Richard Dawkins in the 1970s positing that cultural trends and ideas emerge from base components (he called memes) in much the same way that biological organisms do from genes. As the theory goes, compelling ideas survive while less effective ones drop away, with variations and combinations succeeding or failing in a survival of the...