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2021-09-02 Home Front: Politix
White House announces plan to build 100K affordable homes
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The White House said Wednesday it will use existing federal funds to build and provide 100,000 homes to low- and middle-income buyers and nonprofits over the next three years to bolster supply that is often snapped up by deep-pocketed investors.

President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing......
believes Congress can bolster affordable housing by approving his mammoth spending plan for families, but the White House said it "can’t wait to take action," as economically battered Americans sought space during the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic only to find tight supply and runaway home prices and rents.

"The large and long-standing gap between the supply and demand of affordable homes for both renters and homeowners makes it harder for families to buy their first home and drives up the cost of rent," a White House fact sheet said. "Higher housing costs also crowd out other investments families can and should make to improve their lives, such as investments in education."

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge
...Dem Congresswoman for Ohio's 11th congressional district since 2008. She won a special election to succeed Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who gave up her office when carried out feet first. The strangely-shaped, but really not gerrymandered, district includes most of the black-majority areas between Cleveland and Akron. Fudge was Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus in the 113th Congress...
on Wednesday will announce a series of measures to carry out the plan, from expanded financing through the Treasury and agencies such as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to relaunching a Treasury-HUD Risk Sharing Program that provides low-cost capital for affordable housing development.

The plan would prioritize families by limiting the sale of certain properties owned by HUD or insured by the Federal Housing Administration to investors.

The administration said it is also "expanding and creating exclusivity periods in which only governmental entities, owner-occupants, and qualified non-profit organizations are able to bid on certain FHA-insured and government-owned properties."

The White House said it needs to act because investors gobbled up one in every six homes purchased in the second quarter of this year.

"Large investor purchases of single-family homes and conversion into rental properties [speed] the transition of neighborhoods from homeownership to rental and drives up home prices for lower cost homes, making it harder for aspiring first-time and first-generation home buyers, among others, to buy a home," the fact sheet said. "At the same, these purchases are unlikely to meaningfully boost supply in the lower-cost portions of the rental market, as investors charge more for rent to recoup higher purchase costs."

Posted by Fred 2021-09-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [28 views ]  Top

#1 ...Can't fight a war, tanking the economy, so let's build 100K houses for 'low-and middle-income' buyers and non-profits.

Which, by the time they're finished will be substandard, poorly adapted for real people/families, and cost $750,000 each.*

Mike

*In CA, they'll cost $2.5M each.
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-09-02 06:59||   2021-09-02 06:59|| Front Page Top

#2 and Biden's brother will be doing the building
Posted by Frank G 2021-09-02 07:47||   2021-09-02 07:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Public housing in the US is a disaster right now. Why will these be any different? Shouldn't they clean up the mess they have now before enlarging it?
Posted by Tom 2021-09-02 08:38||   2021-09-02 08:38|| Front Page Top

#4 If "affordable housing" was feasible or made economic sense, someone would already be doing it.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-02 08:55||   2021-09-02 08:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Hell maybe I should sell my house before the market tanks, like it did under OBAMA.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-09-02 08:58||   2021-09-02 08:58|| Front Page Top

#6 to bolster supply that is often snapped up by deep-pocketed investors.
These won't be affordable once they are built by government, and will also be snapped up by investment companies at distress sale prices.
Posted by Glenmore 2021-09-02 10:20||   2021-09-02 10:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Public housing in the US is a disaster right now. Why will these be any different? Shouldn't they clean up the mess they have now before enlarging it?

Where is the graft in that?
Posted by DarthVader 2021-09-02 10:37||   2021-09-02 10:37|| Front Page Top

#8 You can get pre-fabs cheaper. It's all graft.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-09-02 12:53||   2021-09-02 12:53|| Front Page Top

#9 It will be all about where they are built and what types of "dwellers" they contain.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-02 16:38||   2021-09-02 16:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Been looking at fully furnished portable buildings for half that.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-02 16:48||   2021-09-02 16:48|| Front Page Top

#11 Some folks just need to get up and get going. Reminds me of the old Russian acronym YCGADSOYA. I think the 'YC' makes a guttural 'Yhu' sound.

"You Can't Get Anything Done Sitting On Your Ass"
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-02 17:29||   2021-09-02 17:29|| Front Page Top

#12 Socialism. Americans will get low priority to foreign nationals pouring across our borders to illegally.
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-09-02 23:31||   2021-09-02 23:31|| Front Page Top

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