Trump's housing affordability proposals.

Editorial: Affordability no hoax

All praise the power of polls. Sinking approval ratings, especially on the economy, have pushed President Trump from attacking affordability concerns as a “hoax” to pushing proposals to address the problem.

Trump's housing affordability proposals.

I'm Isaac Saul, and this is Tangle: an independent, nonpartisan, subscriber-supported politics newsletter that summarizes the best arguments from across the political spectrum on the news of the day — then “my take.”Are you new here? Get free emails to your inbox daily. Would you rather listen? You can find our podcast here.Today’s read: 13 minutes.🏡President Trump is ramping up his efforts to bring down homeownership costs — but will they be e…

Real Estate housing experts doubt pre-pandemic prices will ever come back to America · American Wire News

Economic experts have serious doubts that the prices for goods and services will ever be as affordable as they were in 2019 and earlier. Part of the reason why is that they don’t believe prices are moving up and down cyclically, but forever up structurally. “While it might appear that things were more affordable in 2019, this kind of march toward lack of affordability has been going on for a long time,” principal Dan Coakley of PMG Affordable to…

How to Fix the Housing Market

No one needs a chart to show housing is unaffordable right now but here are a couple from Apollo anyway: The Trump administration has offered some ideas in recent weeks to help with affordability. The first idea is to ban institutional ownership of homes: The idea here is if you take away demand from professional investors, that should free up supply for households. In theory, this makes sense, but this feels like push...

Housing Expert: Pre-pandemic Home Prices May Never Return in America - The MortgagePoint

Here’s what home buyers have heard for years: The housing market eventually would “normalize,” and if mortgage rates came down or inventory improved, that affordability would return to something resembling pre-pandemic levels like in 2019. New data from Realtor.com suggests that market might never come back, and that returning to pre-pandemic affordability would require outcomes economists say are extremely unlikely, according to Fox Business. A…