June 27, 2016
The State of the Union’s Housing in 2016
The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University has released its excellent annual report, The State of the Nation’s Housing for 2016. It finds, With household growth finally picking up, housing should help boost the economy. Although homeownership rates are still … Continue reading
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June 17, 2016
New Housing and Displacement
The Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley has issued a research brief, Housing Production, Filtering and Displacement: Untangling the Relationships. It opens, Debate over the relative importance of subsidized and market-rate housing production in alleviating the current housing crisis … Continue reading
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June 10, 2016
The High Cost of Living in NOLA
Occupy.com quoted me in For Struggling Renters in New Orleans, Hope May Be Coming A Bit Late. It opens, Twenty-four-year old Stuart Marino is a finance major at University of New Orleans with $8,000 in student loan debt and 33 … Continue reading
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June 3, 2016
Trump, Sanders and Housing Policy
I had earlier blogged about Hillary Clinton’s housing policy positions. Today, I turn to those of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Amazingly (or, perhaps, completely unsurprisingly), their housing policies present microcosms of their … Continue reading
June 3, 2016 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
June 2, 2016
Ensuring Sustainable Homeownership
My short article, Ensuring That Homeownership Is Sustainable, was just published in the Westlaw Journal, Bank & Lender Liability. It opens, The Federal Housing Administration has suffered as a result of many of the same unrealistic underwriting assumptions that led to problems … Continue reading
June 2, 2016 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
May 20, 2016
White-Segregated Subsidized Housing
The University of Minnesota Law School’s Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity has issued a report, The Rise of White-Segregated Subsidized Housing. While the report is focused on Minnesota, it raises important issues about affordable housing program demographics throughout the country: To what extent do the … Continue reading
May 20, 2016 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
May 17, 2016
Inclusionary Housing: Fact and Fiction
The Center for Housing Policy has issued a policy brief, Separating Fact from Fiction to Design Effective Inclusionary Housing Programs. I am not sure fact was fully separated from fiction when I finished reading it. It opens, Inclusionary housing programs generally … Continue reading
May 17, 2016 in Affordable Housing | Permalink | No Comments
