The US Small Business Administration (SBA) has published a regulatory guidance titled “Addressing State and Local Failures to Rebuild Los Angeles After Wildfire Disasters” that will enable allow builders to self-certify compliance with substantive state and local...
President Trump has announced his nomination of Kevin Warsh to become the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. “I have known Kevin for a long period of time, and have no doubt that he will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best,” said Trump in a...
President Donald J. Trump has issued an executive order designed to speed up the reconstruction of properties in the Pacific Palisades and Eaton Canyon areas of Los Angeles County that were destroyed in last year’s wildfires. The executive order, which was signed on...
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte accommodated President Trump’s announcement of a federal purchase of $200 billion in mortgage bonds by making a unilateral and unpublicized policy change that enabled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to raise the...
President Trump’s recent focus on restricting large institutional investors from purchasing single-family homes has sparked a new wave of questions: Who is competing for inventory? How does that competition affect affordability? And what happens if the biggest players...