Houses are less affordable since the election

As if this country didn’t already have an affordable housing crisis, a new report says: U.S. homes are less affordable now than they were before the general election, driven higher by mortgage interest rates up roughly 50-basis points since Nov. 8, according to a new report from Black Knight Financial Services. You can read more …

If we really want affordable homes…

We should insist on them, no exceptions. I wrote this for The Hill.

Oopsie! Check out this report on white segregated subsidized housing…

This is not how things are supposed to work. At all. The University of Minnesota’s Institute of Metropolitan Opportunity just released a report, “The Rise of White-Segregated Subsidized Housing,” that looks at what they call a new category of subsidized housing—one catering to whiter and comparatively more affluent people than the typical residents of affordable developments. IMO …

In which I become sinfully wealthy

I’m probably going to win Powerball today (which stands at $1.5 billion, last time I checked and this be damned), and so I’m going to share my list of things I’ll do when I’m rich with you, the not-rich so that when I do win, you won’t come calling because I’ve already made plans for the cash: …

Comparing housing to groceries isn’t such a bad idea

The Atlantic’s Daniel Hertz has written “Affordable Housing Would Be Much Fairer If It Were Treated Like Food Stamps.” An excerpt: While policies directed at making food more affordable surely are far from perfect, they have several key advantages over those that try to make housing more affordable. Most crucially, SNAP is funded through general …