Campaign Debate Missing Critical Housing Issue

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Why has one of the nation's most critical issues been missing from the presidential debates? Faith Schwartz, CoreLogic's Senior Vice President for Government Affairs says it can't be for lack of material. While candidates on either side " haven't been shy about taking positions on a wide range of issues: everything from immigration to healthcare and gun control to climate change," she says, a discussion about housing has been missing in action. Schwart maintains that housing and the broader issue of affordable shelter are critical elements to the issue of the future of the middle class, the sustainability of the American Dream of homeownership, even the appropriate role of government. For starters she says, homeownership is at its lowest level in decades and observers like the Joint Center...(read more)

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