fromwww.housingwire.com
5 days ago10 levers the Trump Admin may pull to attack housing affordability
The Trump Administration is signaling that it intends to attack the affordability crisis and chronic undersupply from multiple angles talking openly about declaring a national housing emergency, freeing up federal land, leaning on localities to permit faster and denser, trimming closing costs, exploring rate-transfer ideas, boosting construction capacity, revisiting mortgage product design (including multigenerational mortgages), lowering MBS spreads via capital and liquidity moves, and potentially releasing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from conservatorship.
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