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How Might Tariffs and Deportations Affect Affordable Housing Development?

January 24, 2025 | Shelby R. King

Many affordable housing developers worry Trump’s proposed taxes on imports and crackdown on immigration will be detrimental to the industry. Others hope deregulation reduces development costs enough to offset those effects. What’s the most likely outcome?

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Opinion

SCOTUS Hamstrings Federal Agencies, a Blow to Housing and Health Equity

October 4, 2024 | Zachary Travis

The Supreme Court has overturned the legal precedent Chevron deference. Without the authority to interpret ambiguities in regulations, the critical work of HHS and HUD could suffer.

Reported Article

Proposed CRA Rule Receives Mixed Reviews from Housers

July 14, 2022 | Meir Rinde

Public comment is open through Aug. 5 on proposed Community Reinvestment Act rule changes. They are worlds better than the Trump-era proposal. Why are some advocates still disappointed?

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Housing

When Affordable Housing Meets Free-Market Fantasy

December 11, 2017 | Zelda Bronstein

Because affordable housing doesn’t yield acceptable profits to real estate investors, the only way a substantial amount of it is going to get built is if it’s publicly funded.

From top left, Ingrid Gould Ellen of the Furman Center at New York University; Jamaal Green of Portland State University; Rosanne Haggerty of Community Solutions; and Rick Jacobus of Street Level Advisors. From bottom left, Greg Maher of the Leviticus Alternative Fund; Alan Mallach of the Center for Community Progress and a National Housing Institute senior fellow; and Charlie Wilkins, a consultant and co-author of the AEI paper.
Interview

Regulation and Housing Supply: Where the Left & Right Agree (Sort Of)

March 30, 2017 | Miriam Axel-Lute

We gathered some people who have done a lot of thinking and studying on regulation to discuss what it might look like to actually remove obstacles that get in the way of developing less expensive housing options responsibly. What’s possible? What are the trade-offs?