A Phil Hall Op-Ed: I know that I am rather late to the digital party, but I recently began playing around with ChatGPT and I find it to be an amusing distraction when I have a few minutes to kill and no intelligent solution for using that free time. I am extremely...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: I don’t know about you, but I don’t take much pleasure in going to my mailbox after the postal carrier stops at my home. After all, there isn’t much pleasure to be found in the mailbox: some bills, a crummy free community newspaper that I never...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Last week, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) number-crunched data from the American Community Survey and came up with a remarkable result: Roughly half of the nation’s housing stock was built in the 1980s and earlier, with slightly...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: On Friday late afternoon, the Trump administration abruptly dumped a pair of executive orders online with the headings “Promoting Access to Mortgage Credit” and “Removing Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Home Construction.” Why the White House...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: For too long, the question of increasing affordable homeownership opportunities has been ignored by government leaders. Lately, however, it seems that everyone has an idea on how this elusive goal can be obtained. But all the latest plans being...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: I live in Connecticut, and I freely admit that I am envious of people who live in other states where the elected officials are making efforts to either reduce or eliminate property taxes. Whether or not those efforts generate serious results is...
