CEO and Author Jack Ryan recently wrote an op ed in the Wall Street Journal called "What Does HUD Have to Show for the Trillions It’s Spent?" and subtitled: "The U.S. homeownership rate was 64% in 1967, two years after the department opened. Now it’s . . . 64%."

He is an entrepreneur, an expert on housing policy, and a crusader against incumbent housing policy. Join us as a discuss American housing policy and why it has been so ineffectual at achieving its stated aims.

Mr. Ryan founded real estate brokerage Rex and recently published Bringing Adam Smith into the American Home: A Case Against Home Ownership.