menu_open Columnists
Howard Husock

Howard Husock

Washington Examiner

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Resentful lefties are making a new push for reparations. My own research reveals they know nothing about American history

The push is back on for slavery reparations. In July, the New York Civil Liberties Union issued a report urging the immediate adoption of reparations....

sunday 5

New York Post

Howard Husock

Mamdani’s groceries will have him competing against . . . himself

Mayor Mamdani’s city-owned supermarkets are ill-considered for many reasons.

08.08.2026 8

New York Post

Howard Husock

Surprise: Mamdani’s ‘socialist’ NYC rent freeze benefits wealthier tenants the most

Mamdani delights in calling out those who’ve committed the sin of becoming wealthy — but his rent freeze is the precise opposite of the kind of...

27.07.2026 10

New York Post

Howard Husock

How NYC’s perverse housing ‘help’ makes the city’s poor worse off

NYC's new housing voucher program may seem compassionate, but it’s actually blighting the life chances of those it seeks to help.

07.07.2026 10

New York Post

Howard Husock

Freeze the property tax, not the rent

The city’s Rent Guidelines Board has unsurprisingly voted for the rent freeze on which Mayor Mamdani campaigned. As board member Christina Smyth put...

02.07.2026 10

NY Daily News

Howard Husock

New York is overdoing it with a constant barrage of lottery ads

It's one thing for lottery spending to be legal. It's another thing for New York State to be promoting vice.

21.06.2026 10

New York Post

Howard Husock

Thirty years later, Section 230 is protecting the wrong people

12.02.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Howard Husock

Congress is failing its one constitutional job

12.02.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Howard Husock

Oren Cass is badly wrong about the financial industry

12.02.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Howard Husock

Enabled by Democrats, Albanian prosecutors pursue Edi Rama’s political opponents

12.02.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Howard Husock

What Harvard’s Raj Chetty overlooks about upward mobility

12.02.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Howard Husock

With Cea Weaver, Mamdani signals the dangerous truth of his housing plan for NYC

Zohran Mamdani is signaling antagonism toward private housing itself — but other Democrats are realizing that affordability means bucking the left.

12.01.2026 30

New York Post

Howard Husock

Mamdani sides with tenants as New York landlords get crushed by rigged housing laws

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces criticism for appointing Cara Weaver, who calls homeownership "White supremacy," to lead tenant protection...

09.01.2026 300

Fox News

Howard Husock

Chuck Schumer knows how to fix Somali fraud. He should just ask … Chuck Schumer

Chuck Schumer remains silent on Minnesota fraud case involving Somali constituents, despite his 2013 immigration reform proposals.

14.12.2025 100

Fox News

Howard Husock

How misreading Somali poverty led Minnesota into its largest welfare scandal

Minnesota officials overlooked a billion-dollar welfare fraud scheme by Somali immigrants due to fears of appearing racist after confusing immigrant...

10.12.2025 100

Fox News

Howard Husock

A solution to the housing affordability problem: Marriage

Declining marriage rates among young adults create housing affordability crisis as single households compete for limited supply, institute data shows.

01.12.2025 20

Fox News

Howard Husock

Zohran Mamdani can save NYCHA — IF he’s open to tapping the private sector for help

Fact is, only private investment can save the nation's largest public-housing system.

29.11.2025 10

New York Post

Howard Husock

Real Estate Red Flag: How hidden blue-state policies are pricing out homeowners

'Making Money' panelists Amy Nixon and Melody Wright discuss affordability in the housing market. A telling new analysis of rising home maintenance...

20.11.2025 40

Fox Business

Howard Husock

We need a Marshall Plan to tackle America’s housing crisis

The Trump administration can use its bully pulpit to help solve the housing crisis and cut the red tape and regulations that are holding back...

14.11.2025 10

Fox News

Howard Husock

We need a Marshall Plan to tackle America’s housing crisis

Homeownership has long been part of the American dream, but that dream has been deferred.

14.11.2025 20

New York Post

Howard Husock

Supreme Court case exposes liberal contradictions on race and segregation

A Supreme Court challenge to Louisiana's congressional map could reshape how race factors into district drawing, potentially affecting similar racial...

24.10.2025 10

Fox News

Howard Husock

Zohran Mamdani's Socialist Housing Plan Could Crash New York's Rickety Rental Market

20.10.2025 10

Reason.com

Howard Husock

The next mayor must rebuild, not redistribute

Twice over the past summer, storms caused major flooding struck the New York City subway system, closing 20 stations on July 15. The inundation, per...

28.09.2025 30

NY Daily News

Howard Husock

‘Safe’ drug dens got $2M in Biden’s budget — now make them HELP NYC’s addicts

Now we know why Harlem's "safe injection" sites could be confident they wouldn't face a federal crackdown for aiding illegal drug use: Biden was...

05.09.2025 10

New York Post

Howard Husock

Privileged Zohran Mamdani’s sweet rent deal exposes the brutal truth about NYC’s housing crisis

Rent stabilization makes rents artificially low for anyone, at building owners' expense — but no mayoral candidate has the guts to call out the...

12.08.2025 10

New York Post

Howard Husock

Screwworms are back and Congress must act

02.08.2025 10

Washington Examiner

Howard Husock

Trump’s approval rating is better than meets the eye

02.08.2025 20

Washington Examiner

Howard Husock

The Trump economy is delivering for American workers

02.08.2025 20

Washington Examiner

Howard Husock

Trump is moving in the right direction on colorblind banking

02.08.2025 20

Washington Examiner

Howard Husock

How New York – and other cities – can beat NIMBY

02.08.2025 20

NY Daily News

Howard Husock

Nix socialist supermarkets — and unleash capitalism to fix NYC’s food woes

The private sector is already stepping up to bring cheaper groceries to a low-income “food desert” in a Bronx housing project. Smart city policies...

19.07.2025 10

New York Post

Howard Husock

Why the best Independence Day present would be more US citizens

A path to citizenship is the best path forward.

05.07.2025 10

New York Post

Howard Husock

Hardware stores are the nuts and bolts of American freedom this July 4th

From Soviet-era housing to American hardware stores, how homeownership represents freedom and responsibility. Home equity accounts for 45% of American...

04.07.2025 20

Fox News

Howard Husock

Zohran Mamdani’s rent freeze will warp NYC’s housing market — and hurt us all

We’ve seen this rent-freeze movie before under Bill de Blasio — and the city reaped a whirlwind of deferred maintenance and health hazards.

03.07.2025 10

New York Post

Howard Husock

The angry Left resists as the Right rejoices: A tale of two Independence Days

02.07.2025 10

Washington Examiner

Howard Husock

UPenn’s transgender surrender is a temporary victory

02.07.2025 10

Washington Examiner

Howard Husock

Zohran Mamdani’s idiotic war on billionaires

02.07.2025 10

Washington Examiner

Howard Husock

UK markets roil as weakening government cancels spending cuts

02.07.2025 10

Washington Examiner

Howard Husock

NPR and PBS need to play ball for federal funding

02.07.2025 10

Washington Examiner

Howard Husock

Why Do Republicans Support the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit?

24.06.2025 10

Reason.com

Howard Husock

Why the Democratic NYC mayoral candidates have housing all wrong

The Democratic primary candidates for mayor all agree: the city faces a housing cost crisis.   Brad Lander says it requires declaring a “state of...

07.06.2025 10

New York Post

Howard Husock

What that citizenship contest reality show gets right

"The American" reality show proposal focuses on citizenship, highlighting the need for a national movement to support legal immigrants in becoming...

07.06.2025 10

Fox News

Howard Husock

What Cuomo should be saying about his record

29.05.2025 10

NY Daily News

Howard Husock

Broken cities, bad governance: Blue state city residents voting with their feet

The population exodus from blue state cities continues as their residents express their dissatisfaction by moving away.

22.05.2025 10

Fox News

Howard Husock

Mine our trash to get rare earth minerals

15.05.2025 10

Washington Examiner

Howard Husock

Defunding PBS and NPR could make them even worse

Trump cut $535 million from NPR and PBS because of their biases. The result might be worse without federal oversight. And liberal foundations could...

12.05.2025 10

Fox News

Howard Husock