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Housing policy
Will Hill Help Housing?
What are the housing problems policymakers will confront over the next two years? Who better to ask than leading housing trade groups and housing advocates? They shared their insights with Capital Comme...
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One Big Thing: Housing’s Cloudy Forecast
Capital Commentary asked leading housing authorities to give their insights on the upcoming year from the perspective of looking back on 2023 from the end of the year rather than the beginning. Their ve...
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Midterms Were Good News for Housing
Welcome to our end-of-the-year review of the 2022 midterm elections and their impact on housing and homeownership in America....
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Think Nationally, Act Locally
This Capital Commentary examines the Biden plan and then turns to efforts to focus on barriers and solutions at local levels...
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Erasing Housing’s Inequities
For this issue, Capital Commentary takes a high-level look at the Equitable Housing Finance Plans (EHFPs) from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
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Making Homeownership Affordable
While much of the focus on home affordability centers on a shortage of homes or — more recently — rising interest rates, there are other steps policymakers might take to lower the cost of homeownership...
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They’ve Got the Housing Blues
Just when you think there is finally a nationwide consensus about the need to build more homes to meet housing demand, someone lets the cat out of the bag that it just isn’t so....
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NIMBYs: Hear Them Roar (And other views on building more homes.)
Just when you think there is finally a nationwide consensus about the need to build more homes to meet housing demand, someone lets the cat out of the bag that it just isn’t so....
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FHFA: Where Housing Is Job One
Welcome to the first issue of Arch MI’s Capital Commentary for 2022....
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America’s Finest Housing Solution?
This issue of Capital Commentary looks at changes coming at the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), in housing demographics and urban neighborhoods....
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