Howard Husock is an author and member of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. He has written a number of essays for the Institute's City Journal, a collection of which have been published under the title America's Trillion Dollar Housing Mistake.
Biography on Manhattan Institute Website: [1]
Spanos, Jared B., "Howard Husock's Monstrous Argument," The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 39, (June 2007), pp. 438-455.