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Louisville cannot solve a housing crisis while limiting who gets to build the solution

America has finally begun to acknowledge an uncomfortable truth: We don’t simply have an affordable housing funding problem—we have an affordable housing production problem. The recently enacted federal housing affordability legislation reflects that reality. Rather than focusing solely on increasing subsidies, policymakers have recognized that the nation must expand its capacity to build. More builders. […]

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I asked ChatGPT to pick a lender. Every loan officer should do the same. 

A few weeks ago, I opened ChatGPT and asked a question millions of homebuyers are about to start asking: “What’s the best mortgage company to get pre-approved quickly online?” Four minutes and sixteen seconds later, it gave me a specific lender. Not a list of ads. Not “consult a professional.” A name, a rationale and

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Line graph of US Housing Inventory Months of Supply.

Housing Affordability Levers FHFA, HUD and CFPB Can Pull Now

The President neither signed nor vetoed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, proving that sometimes doing absolutely nothing is still enough to make a law.  Policymakers are calling the legislation historic, and there has been enough bipartisan back-slapping to qualify as its own round of stimulus. Its centerpiece promise is the same refrain we

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