Ravitch and Susan Molinari were appointed co-chairs of the 22-member Millennial Housing Commission, when it was established by the United States Congress in 2000.
The commission was charged with making recommendations to Congress regarding ways to increase affordable housing.
In 2003, he and Molinari were awarded with the "Housing Person of the Year" award by the National Housing Conference.

In 2004, Ravitch became a partner in Ravitch, Rice & Company, and was the chairman of both the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust's Board of Trustees, and the AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust's Advisory Board.
He was appointed by Paterson in 2008 to assist in fixing the finances of the MTA, and was a delegate for Barack Obama in the 2008 election.

In 2012 Ravitch co-chaired (with Paul Volcker) the "State Budget Crisis Task Force."
 The Ravitch Volcker report, which reviewed the fiscal strength of six US states, said more transparent accounting of government liabilities was needed and warned that the capacity of state governments to meet various needs would be increasingly crowded out by the growth in Medicaid spending and retirement promises to state employees unless budget plans were reformed.

2014 saw the release of Ravitch's autobiography, So Much to Do: A Full Life of Business, Politics, and Confronting Fiscal Crises (Public Affairs, 2014).
The publisher's summary describes the book as "Making [the] case" that "deceptive budgeting and borrowing practices are crippling our states’ ability to do what only they can do—invest in the physical and human infrastructure the country needs to thrive".
According to Kirkus Reviews, "Ravitch draws some lessons about our need to understand the true costs of public benefits," and "underlines the importance of our often messy political process".
Casey Seiler, writing in Albany's Times Union praises its " engaging and lucid prose — especially beneficial considering the subject at hand" and Paul Volcker has called it "a call for action to a nation consumed by discord".
Ravitch and Susan Molinari were appointed co-chairs of the 22-member Millennial Housing Commission, when it was established by the United States Congress in 2000. The commission was charged with making recommendations to Congress regarding ways to increase affordable housing. In 2003, he and Molinari were awarded with the "Housing Person of the Year" award by the National Housing Conference.
In 2004, Ravitch became a partner in Ravitch, Rice & Company, and was the chairman of both the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust's Board of Trustees, and the AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust's Advisory Board. He was appointed by Paterson in 2008 to assist in fixing the finances of the MTA, and was a delegate for Barack Obama in the 2008 election.
In 2012 Ravitch co-chaired (with Paul Volcker) the "State Budget Crisis Task Force."  The Ravitch Volcker report, which reviewed the fiscal strength of six US states, said more transparent accounting of government liabilities was needed and warned that the capacity of state governments to meet various needs would be increasingly crowded out by the growth in Medicaid spending and retirement promises to state employees unless budget plans were reformed.
2014 saw the release of Ravitch's autobiography, So Much to Do: A Full Life of Business, Politics, and Confronting Fiscal Crises (Public Affairs, 2014). The publisher's summary describes the book as "Making [the] case" that "deceptive budgeting and borrowing practices are crippling our states’ ability to do what only they can do—invest in the physical and human infrastructure the country needs to thrive". According to Kirkus Reviews, "Ravitch draws some lessons about our need to understand the true costs of public benefits," and "underlines the importance of our often messy political process". Casey Seiler, writing in Albany's Times Union praises its " engaging and lucid prose — especially beneficial considering the subject at hand" and Paul Volcker has called it "a call for action to a nation consumed by discord".
Richard Ravitch