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The US added more multifamily housing between 2021 and 2025 than any other time in the past 37 years, with downtown Brooklyn and Nashville leading the way.
How public servants have helped expand housing mobility We often caricaturize bureaucrats, but their knowledge, expertise, and dedication are central to the good work being done in the public sector.Rehabilitation, not victimization Inmates have a fundamental right to personal safety, and anything contrary to that violates their constitutionally and statutorily granted rights.Is Detroit’s “Rehabbed and Ready” program the answer to the city’s appraisal problem? This public-private partnership has the potential to increase traditional sales in a housing market otherwise dominated by distressed property sales.Could permit-to-purchase laws help prevent the next mass shooting? Permit-to-purchase laws require that firearm buyers obtain a license before purchasing certain types of firearms.Medicaid expansion could make health insurance affordable for 5.6 million Many Americans fall into the assistance gap: too rich for Medicaid, but too poor for discounted private insurance in the ACA marketplaces.