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Opinion: 5 policy changes that can improve housing affordability

Housing Wire

Residential zoning laws are designed to promote orderly development, control traffic flow, and ensure that noise and activity levels are appropriate to each specific neighborhood. Decades ago, zoning laws were used to legally segregate local communities based on race. It’s basic math, but how we got to this point is more complex.

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Treasury Department expands funding options for affordable housing

Housing Wire

Treasury Department has issued new guidance empowering state, local and tribal governments to direct more of the funding appropriated under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 toward affordable-housing investments. billion for affordable-housing development and preservation.

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The Complete Guide to Buying a Home As a Government Employee

Raleigh Realty

Buying a Home As a Government Employee Are you a government employee preparing to buy a home? With the right resources, you can ensure a successful investment and one in which you may save tens of thousands of dollars thanks to being a government employee. Who Is a Government Employee?

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Opinion: A more balanced approach to manufactured home energy efficiency?

Housing Wire

We also commend the administration for the White House initiative announced a week ago Monday to “Ease the Burden of Housing Costs,” which a Housing Wire article noted is designed to reduce regulatory hurdles. Both the standards and the underlying methodology used to develop them are fundamentally flawed.

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Streamlining subsidies to build more affordable housing

Housing Wire

To help the lowest-income families, who increasingly can’t find affordable housing in today’s market, federal, state, and local governments devote considerable resources to subsidize the development of affordable housing with below market rents. These bureaucratic barriers burden developers with direct and indirect costs.

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Judge’s ruling will put PLS trusts under the thumb of the CFPB

Housing Wire

A recent judge’s ruling in pending litigation involving student-loan securitization trusts could have far-reaching legal and financial implications for the private-label securities market. It completely upends the construct of securitization.”. Judge, judicial, court, regulation, Supreme Court, HUD, FHFA, ruling, fair housing.

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Does Adding an In-Law Suite Pay Off?

Empire Appraisal Group

If you can legally add an accessory dwelling unit (ADU), should you? Constructing an ADU could increase your property value while providing rental income or extra living space for a family member. In California, homeowners have a legal right to build ADUs, and local governments aren’t supposed to create barriers to getting permits.

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