Inside the White House with Liz Landers
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... is important, but a much smaller package, and then not allow child care to go forward, not allow paid leave, not allow people to have affordable housing, not to take on climate change. Those are the things that are in the Build Back Better Act that are the president's ...
... to unfairly hold the bag," said Greg Brown, a senior vice president for government affairs at the National Apartment Association. "Ultimately, any effort to pursue additional moratoriums will only balloon the nation's rental debt ... and exacerbate the housing affordability crisis, permanently jeopardizing the availability of safe and affordable housing."
... areas, estimates suggest that 90 percent of the homes are uninhabitable, including nursing homes and apartment complexes. Local officials say there simply is not enough affordable housing for all the people left homeless. Few homeowners or renters have insurance. Many live below the poverty level and live paycheck to paycheck ...
... is backing current front-runner Michelle Wu, who happens to be originally from Chicago. But, today, Poliner she thinks Bostonians vote more on issues, like affordable housing and homelessness due to the opioid crisis, rather than old ties. Rachel Poliner, Progressive West Roxbury/Roslindale: We have questionnaires that go out ...
... and rented at below-market rates. But some neighborhood residents say that isn't good enough. They would like all of the apartments to be affordable. "The universal demand was always that there be affordable housing," said Todd Fine, a lower Manhattan preservation advocate. Fine called 330 below-market-rate ...
... to save for down payments and keeping them in rentals longer. Nearly half of renters spend more than the recommended 30% of their incomes on housing. To increase home construction, Biden's economics team proposes a series of policy shifts. First, it intends to deliver 100,000 affordable housing units ...
... among one of the cities in the country that does have a high rate of evictions. Is part of the problem here also just enough affordable housing? And do you have that concern that some people will end up homeless after you enforce those evictions? Kristen Randall: So, Tucson especially ...
... the same time it undercut the earning potential of renters in the middle class. Due to the economic pressure of eviction moratoriums coupled with illegal housing practices, many are finding few options for safe, affordable housing. Special correspondent Catherine Rampell reports. ... Judy Woodruff: At the start of the pandemic, rents ...
... of the pandemic exacerbated the problem, the reports say. "The unprecedented events of 2020 both exposed and amplified the impacts of unequal access to decent, affordable housing," researchers at Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University wrote. "These disparities are likely to persist even as the economy recovers, with ...
... investments in roads, bridges, ports and water drinking systems, while Biden takes a more expansive view. Under Biden's initial proposal, there is more than $300 billion for substantial upgrades to public schools, Veterans Administration hospitals and affordable housing, along with $25 billion for new and renovated child care centers.
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