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# The Kentucky Housing Crisis Is Here
- URL: https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/the-kentucky-housing-crisis-is-here/
- Published: 2025-10-17T12:59:41.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-30T12:26:36.000Z
- Description: We don't have to burden taxpayers to make room for the next generation of Kentuckians, but policymakers need to act now.
- Author: Caleb O. Brown
- Tags: Events, Economic Competitiveness

**Join us for three events in Covington, Lexington, and Louisville to discuss the future of housing policy in Kentucky**

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Join us for live events October 28 and 30.

The Bluegrass Institute will host [three events focusing on the future of housing policy in our commonwealth](https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/live-events-the-kentucky-housing-crisis-is-here/), and **I would love to see you there**.

RSVP for any of these events below:

October 28 - Northern Kentucky

October 28 - Lexington

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October 30 - [Louisville](https://tockify.com/bluegrassinstitute/detail/5/1761861600000?ref=bluegrassinstitute.org)

Why does this matter now?

- Two of Kentucky's housing markets now feature average homes selling for five times median household income and the broad trend is moving in the wrong direction.
- Kentucky's young people will choose other states if housing is too expensive.
- Local governments routinely disrespect the property rights of the people who own or build housing and, until now, Frankfort has allowed the problem to fester.

The upside is that serious housing reform doesn't need to burden taxpayers or involve needless handouts. We just need to respect property owners.

Our housing scholar, [M. Nolan Gray](https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/author/mnolangray/) will walk you through exactly what policymakers can do now to deliver vastly more housing, energize Kentucky's economy, and give the commonwealth's property owners their rights back.