The chief regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is now also the board chair of both companies. What’s the long game here?
Housing
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Trump Administration Cuts Funding for Fair Housing Groups, Weakening Discrimination Protections
The termination of grants to dozens of fair housing organizations threatens enforcement of the Fair Housing Act.
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Is Florida’s Migration Tide Turning?
Young people are leaving the state, and climate change’s impacts on the cost of living are contributing factors.
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Child Death Sparks Reconsideration of Private Equity–Owned Affordable Housing
A two-year-old died in Section 8 housing in Pittsburgh, in one of over 130 federally subsidized properties owned by private equity firm Vitus.
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Shlock and Awe
The Los Angeles fires shine a light on the wretched excess of the very rich.
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Socialism, Propaganda, and Crypto Scams
Our managing editor lays out his best work of 2024.
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Solving the Housing Crisis Will Take More Than YIMBY
It’s a good start, but it won’t produce true affordability.
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Tackling the Housing Crisis
A symposium on how housing unaffordability happened and what can be done
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Make It Legal to Build
The Yes In My Backyard, or YIMBY, movement believes that solving the housing shortage entails removing impediments to adding supply.