The country's impressive homeownership gains over the past several years reside uneasily next to continued lagging minority homeownership rates and
increasing affordability problems.
Not exact matches
The bill's authors assert PROSPER's reforms will simplify and improve student aid and that the proposals outlined will help students borrow responsibly.1 Those are certainly laudable goals, but the bill seems to miss two of the largest
problems facing higher education today: maintaining access and
increasing affordability.
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Also, a complaint line is launched, gains exacerbate
affordability problems, condo are sales up, and the
increase in FHA mortgage limits has paid off.
There are lots of factors contributing to growing
affordability problems, but they pale next to regulatory barriers, which are
increasing as localities try to curb sprawl, said Robert Mitchell, president of the National Association of Home Builders.
Increased rents and stagnant wage growth leads to a
problem of
affordability for many renters, and a separate conversation about Affordable Housing, what it is and how it works.
Escalating rental
affordability problems come at a time when the share of Americans that rent has
increased from 31 percent in 2004 to 35 percent in 2012.
This bicameral, bipartisan legislation introduced by Reps. Michael Grimm, R - N.Y., and Maxine Waters, D - Calif., and by Sens. Bob Menendez, D - N.J., and Johnny Isakson, R - Ga., would delay further implementation of major rate changes until the Federal Emergency Management Agency completes an
affordability study required by Biggert - Waters; creates an office of the Advocate to investigate flood insurance rate
increases; and reports to Congress with proposed solutions to any identified
problems.
Additional findings reported by NAHB show that few owners and renters of inadequate units also have
problems with housing
affordability (paying 30 percent or more of income for housing), so they represent a net
increase in the count of Americans with housing
problems.