Many agree that today's housing top challenges – affordability and availability – are a failure by the government to invest needed funds and create a pro-housing regulatory environment, as well as household incomes not keeping pace with the cost of housing.
A group of housing experts including national real estate organizations, community groups representing diverse communities, and renter representatives convened last week to discuss these issues and the need for policy solutions.
The group, which included National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) President Sharon Wilson Geno, "sought common principles aimed at broadening housing opportunity that can even act as a guide for policymakers looking to implement a set of pro-housing solutions that will help increase housing opportunities across the country," according to an NMHC release.
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