Bob Broeksmit is president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). This column is edited and adapted from prepared remarks delivered today at the MBA’s 2024 Annual Convention and Expo in Denver. While the rest of the country is anxious about the...
Rohit Chopra is director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). This article is adapted and edited from a speech delivered yesterday at the National Housing Conference in Washington, DC. While we often focus on homeownership as a vehicle for accumulating...
Tom Barkin is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. This article is adapted from a recent speech delivered during theGlobal Interdependence Center’s Central Banking Series at Banque de France in Paris. By the first quarter of 2022, the Fed’s...
David Hall is president of Currie-Hall Investment Co., an industrial real estate brokerage and development firm based in Hudson, Ohio. Just when I thought the topic and discussions of providing affordable housing couldn’t get farther off the track, I read Sen....
James H. Schloemer is chairman of the National Multifamily Housing Council. This article is edited and adapted from prepared remarks made on behalf of the National Multifamily Housing Council and the National Apartment Association during a July 24 hearing held by the...
Paul Compton is managing partner at the law firm Compton Jones and Dresher LLP. This article is adapted and edited from the hearing entitled “Housing Solutions: Cutting Through Government Red Tape” held last week before the U.S. House of Representatives Financial...
