Housing
Mortgages, rents, building codes and housing supply.
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In the News
SPPI in the Spotlight: Exposing Opioid Settlement Secrecy, Regulatory Overreach, and Real Estate Trap Doors
How SPPI is driving transparency, market competition, and accountability in public policy.
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Op-Ed
Mortgage Bankers Association’s tri-merge credit reporting reform pushes risky overhaul
Proposal strips critical safeguards and shifts long-term costs on to American borrowers.
Originally published inThe Washington Times
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Policy Brief
Weakening Tri-Merge Would Make Housing Less Affordable
Why cutting credit reporting costs won’t fix housing affordability, and may make it worse.
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Op-Ed
Trump’s 50-year mortgage just introduces a new kind of debt
50-year loan terms would triple total debt while government regulations continue driving up building costs
Originally published inFox News
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White Paper
The Case Against 50-Year Mortgages
How will Washington’s housing “fix” entrench debt, inflate prices, and undermine the American Dream?
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Op-Ed
The Case Against 30-Year Mortgages
Subsidized debt drives up prices, sucks up wealth, and makes it hard for millennials to buy homes.
Originally published inThe Wall Street Journal
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Policy Brief
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s Reply Is the Real Joke
The Mortgage Bankers Association’s slow, self-serving defense of the 30-year mortgage proves that lifetime debt, not homeownership, is the product they’re really selling.
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Policy Brief
The Real Cost of Homeownership: Beyond the Mortgage and APR
This guest commentary was written by Ed Harris, CEO of Harris Northwest Advisors and a Visiting Contributor at the Southwest Public Policy Institute. In his argument about APR, Patrick Brenner is wrong but inadvertently correct on…
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Policy Brief
Compounding Interest: The Case Against the Confused Case Against the Case Against 30-Year Mortgages
In his letter responding to my column in The Wall Street Journal, “The Case Against 30-Year Mortgages,” former Freddie Mac executive David Andrukonis defends the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage as a transparent, borrower-friendly product. In “A Confused…