Marketplace: “How landlords and tenants are reacting to a changing rental market”
The post-COVID rental market is experiencing significant changes affecting renters and landlords alike.
States: U.S.
POLITICO Magazine: “Political Leaders Are Finally Responding to the Housing Crisis. They Need to Move Faster”
Nationwide, cities and states are tackling the same issue: overly restrictive zoning policies that impede or prohibit new housing construction.
Hey SoCal: “Schiff introduces bill to turn government buildings into affordable housing”
This week, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA-30) introduced a bill that aims to repurpose the federal government’s inventory of roughly 45,000 underutilized buildings for affordable housing.
The New York Times: “Biden Suggests a Bigger Federal Role to Reduce Housing Costs”
Economists in the Biden administration are taking aim at what they believe to be one of the most significant challenges facing the president’s re-election campaign: lack of federal action on housing costs.
The New York Times: “Fudge Steps Down as Housing Secretary”
Marcia Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, will step down on March 22nd after three years.
Bloomberg Opinion: “What the YIMBY Winning Streak Means”
The pro-housing movement earned major victories in states across the country this year.
Bisnow: “Senators Push for LIHTC, Zoning Changes Amid ‘Flicker of Hope’ for Housing Reform”
Last week, at a Washington, D.C. housing conference, HUD Deputy Secretary Adrianne Todman and U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D – OR) and Todd Young (R – IN) discussed how Congress and the Biden administration can work to solve the nation’s housing affordability crisis.
The Cincinnati Enquirer: “Opinion: Rent control hampers new housing development, upward mobility”
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is considering a novel legal strategy to enact rent control nationwide. But Don Brunner, President and CEO of BRG Realty Group, explains why such a plan is destined to fail.
Bloomberg CityLab: Building More Housing Can Combat Rising Rents
New research out of New York University’s Furman Center revealed that the rules of supply and demand apply to housing affordability. Researchers found that new housing production can slow rent growth in cities and free up more affordable vacant units in surrounding neighborhoods. – Bloomberg CityLab