At a convening called by the National Alliance to Close the Wealth Gap, a broad coalition of advocates and experts called for urgent action to address the U.S.'s growing housing affordability and supply crisis, a crisis that is squeezing renters and pushing homeownership out of reach for working families. Inadequate housing supply remains a critical factor driving up costs for both renters and buyers. Mercatus Center research assistant Eli Kahn presented data showing that multiple states and localities have considered 263 bills this year designed to ease the regulatory burdens on homebuilding, and a number of such measures have passed […]

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