Chris Herbert, James Stockard, Ben Hecht
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December 1, 2020
Could fresh, “outside-of-the-box” thinking help address the seemingly intractable problem of rental affordability?
Last spring, we decided to explore that question by…
The economic pain we are experiencing in the wake of the pandemic calls for unprecedented government action to contain the fallout from a policy-induced economic coma. It…
Even though Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac returned to very-low down payment lending following the financial crisis, saving for a down payment remains one of the biggest barriers…
Michael Stegman, Richard Cooperstein
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October 9, 2019
Over the years, with the approval of their regulator/conservator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) put in place an opaque…
Like cicada swarms, presidential commissions and federal initiatives to eliminate local barriers to housing development have a certain temporal cadence. By my accounting,…
Much of the writing that I will undertake in my fellowship year at the Joint Center for Housing Studies will address the Trump administration’s and Congress’s administrative…
From time to time, Housing Perspectives features posts by guest bloggers. This post was written by Ben Hecht, President and Chief Executive Officer of Living Cities. His…