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Directed housing credit was a policy with broader support, because each side thought that it would benefit.
More low-income housing credit has been one of the few issues on which President Bill Clinton’s administration, with its affordable-housing mandate, and that of President George W. Bush, with its push for an “ownership” society, agreed.
Housing versus HabitatCAMBRIDGE – Peter Drucker, the influential management guru, famously said, “What does not get measured, does not get done.”
Consider low-income housing.
Most developing countries, and many rich ones, define their housing deficit according to the number of families living in units deemed socially unacceptable.
A housing minister who is told to build a certain number of houses will likely fail to build an equivalent number of well-connected habitat nodes.
Moreover, if the housing deficit is diagnosed as a dearth of adequate housing, then the solution is to build more houses for those who lack it – that is, the poor.
It confuses the construction industry, which builds new homes, with the much larger housing market, which includes all homes.
Because the poor cannot buy adequate housing on their own, public resources must be used.
In order to target these subsidies to low-income households, governments typically treat families of different income levels differently: the rich must fend for themselves, middle-class families are provided with assistance to secure mortgage loans, and the poor are offered public housing.
To maximize the number of units built, housing ministries make sure that projects meet minimum specifications below a certain per-unit cost threshold.
Confusing the construction of new homes with the housing market is most absurd when dealing with displaced families.
Large new housing developments should naturally attract those who already have ample social connections, making it easier to kick-start more integrated communities.
In order to separate the problem of the overall housing deficit from the problem of families with inadequate housing, policymakers need to address both supply and demand.
On the demand side, subsidies should focus on helping families choose from the entire housing market.
With the collapse of the housing bubble, many people lost their jobs and health insurance, risked losing their homes, and suddenly had little reason for economic optimism.
Or will it accelerate as the housing sector rebounds, bank lending expands, household balance sheets improve, and state and local government budgets strengthen?
Housing prices are rising, and, while residential investment is increasing, it remains depressed as a share of GDP.
The report also recommends special requirements for keeping the remaining chimps: housing in groups of at least seven, with a minimum of 1,000 square feet per chimp, room to climb, and opportunities to forage for food.
The banks over-lent to the housing market.
The subsequent burst of the housing bubble in the United States caused banks to fail, because banking had gone global and the big banks held one another’s bad loans.
Those challenges – including weaknesses in the real economy and the private sector, overcapacity, excessive leverage, and high housing prices – are rooted largely in the financial sector’s mounting problems and the failure of China’s leaders to address them.
Credit to the state sector ends up flowing not into productivity-enhancing investments, but into the housing market (fueling price bubbles) and industries with excess capacity (fueling even more overcapacity and enabling companies to avoid much-needed restructuring).
In a paper presented at the session, Andrew Caplin of New York University spoke of the public’s lack of interest or comprehension of the rising risks associated with the FHA, which has been guaranteeing privately-issued mortgages since its creation during the housing crisis of the 1930’s.
The most fundamental reform of housing markets remains something that reduces homeowners’ overleverage and lack of diversification.
Like housing partnerships, this would be a fundamental reform, for it would address the core problem that underlay the financial crisis.
One of our discussants, Joseph Tracy of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (and co-author of Housing Partnerships), put the problem succinctly: “Firefighting is more glamorous than fire prevention.”
They are also trying to develop their housing finance in order to expand homeownership.
Furthermore, in China’s economy stimulus package, 210 billion yuan is allocated for energy conservation, pollutants reduction, and ecosystem protection projects, 370 billion yuan for economic structural adjustment and technology renovation, and 400 billion yuan for new energy-efficient housing that will use environmentally friendly materials.
Second, the United States took advantage of this by lowering interest rates to unprecedented levels, inducing a housing bubble, with mortgages available to anyone not on a life-support system.
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