Kevin Erdmann is a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Erdmann is currently engaged in two book projects with Mercatus on housing finance, land use restrictions, and monetary policy. His first book, Shut Out (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefiled, 2019), offers a contrarian theory on the causes of the housing boom and bust.

Salim Furth is a senior research fellow for the Urbanity project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He studies regional, urban, and macroeconomic trends and policies. Previously,
he has worked at the Heritage Foundation and Amherst College. He is a graduate of the University of Rochester, where he studied economics.

Emily Hamilton is a research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Her research focuses on urban economics and land use policy. Hamilton has authored numerous academic articles and policy papers. Her writing has appeared in USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor, Economic Affairs, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She contributes to the blog Market Urbanism.