Joel Kotkin

Joel Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Urban Reform Institute. He is the author of “The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class.”

Locked Out of the Dream: Regulation Making Homes Unaffordable Around the World

News Analysis Next to inflation, Americans ranked housing as their top financial worry in a Gallup survey last ...

Analysis June 12, 2025
Building the Future: Fixing the Global Housing Crisis

News Analysis The affordable housing crisis in America and many other advanced countries keeps getting worse because it ...

Analysis June 10, 2025
Woe, the Humanity: How AI Fits Into Broadly Rising Anti-Humanism

News Analysis The future of humanity is becoming ever less human. The astounding capabilities of ChatGPT and other forms ...

Analysis July 21, 2023
The Rise of the Single Woke (and Young, Democratic) Female

Soccer Moms are giving way to Single Woke Females—the new “SWFs”—as one of the most potent voting blocs ...

Social Issues January 27, 2023
California’s Vanished Dream, by the Numbers

Even today amid a mounting exodus among those who can afford it, and with its appeal diminished to ...

US News April 23, 2022
Climate Policy: COVID on Steroids?

Commentary For most people around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic seems a great human tragedy, with deaths, bankruptcies, ...

Viewpoints March 11, 2021
The Childless City

What is a city for? Ever since cities first emerged thousands of years ago, they have been places ...

Opinion November 29, 2013

Joel Kotkin

Locked Out of the Dream: Regulation Making Homes Unaffordable Around the World

Building the Future: Fixing the Global Housing Crisis

Woe, the Humanity: How AI Fits Into Broadly Rising Anti-Humanism

The Rise of the Single Woke (and Young, Democratic) Female

California’s Vanished Dream, by the Numbers

Climate Policy: COVID on Steroids?

The Childless City