Tag: The Closer
NMHC weighs in on HUD
After considering the Administration’s goal as well as its previous attempts to shoehorn minorities into largely homogenous communities in which they otherwise could not...
The “folly” of fair housing
These obligations are not made out of whole cloth, but were explicitly set out in the Fair Housing Act of 1968 (FHA), which has...
Congress is working again
An overall uptick in activities on Capitol Hill means that work is also being done on issues important to the multifamily industry. NMHC’s political...
New research could upend our understanding of economic inequality
Inequality has become one of the most hotly debated topics in economics, spurred on by Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which...
Am I the only techie against net neutrality?
No, I am not a paid shill for the cable industry. I am no fan of Comcast or any other ISP I’ve ever had...
A house is not a credit card
Last summer, that same trump card stopped a bipartisan bill to reform the mortgage market, more than six years after Fannie Mae and Freddie...
We don’t have to ditch capitalism to fight climate change
It is of course possible that the 95 percent-plus of scientists who have explored the topic and the National Scientific Academies of every major...
The future of housing
While our industry has often been slow to adopt new technologies, the opposite, of course, is true of the electronics industry. As such, I...
Senate Bill 1217 makes first round, applauded by NMHC and NAA
The vote passed 13-9, which is one more vote than senators said they had during the first mark-up on April 29, when they decided...
Climate forecast: muting the alarm
The 2007 report was riddled with errors about Himalayan glaciers, the Amazon rain forest, African agriculture, water shortages and other matters, all of which...
State of the multihousing union
As punditry is appropriately colorized by the perspective of the teller, our industry leaders may be the clearest sounding bell on how it affects...
The rule of law
In that environment, people could invest and plan for the future without worry about having their wealth seized. They could also go about their...
Banning demon coal
One mystery of U.S. politics is why Al Gore, California billionaire Tom Steyer and the green lobby view President Obama as a disaster for...
A climate action plan for affordable multihousing
To reduce the deadly threat of climate disruption, it is essential to rein in polluting energy use, especially the wasteful conventional consumption of electricity...
EPA’s back-room “Sue and Settle” deals require reform
Imagine, also, that the EPA and the Kochs then got a federal court to issue a decree ratifying the deal and giving it the...
