# Senior Research Scholar Alain Bertaud is interviewed about the link between public policy and affordable housing in cities

1 School News January 18, 2018 ![Reuters logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030503.jpg?itok=0OAgrDF0)>

Excerpt from [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-landrights-property/poor-urban-planning-to-blame-for-pricey-housing-and-expanding-slums-experts-say-idUSKBN1F71S9) -- "'Poor planning regulations are responsible for unaffordable housing in many prosperous cities,' Bertaud told the Thomson Reuters Foundation."

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