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Few domestic policy issues have proved more vexing to elected leaders in recent years than the nation’s affordable housing shortage. And while there are several obvious causes for the problem — most notably in recent years, the pandemic — it was an issue on which the Biden administration was making some real headway through its support for public programs designed to expedite housing construction and aid renters and first time homebuyers.
Unfortunately, as NC Newsline learned in a recent conversation with the former Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, Daniel Hornung, the new Trump administration’s chaotic slash and burn budget cuts are threatening to undermine much of that hard won progress.