California Community Reinvestment Corporation (CCRC) President & CEO Tia Boatman Patterson recently talked with Sean Keenan of the Atlanta Civic Circle to discuss the role of the federal government - specifically the President of the United States - in the housing policy process ahead of the general election in November.
As the President appoints the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Presidential candidates are frequently evaluated based on their housing policy perspectives. Yet the politicization of housing policy ends up creating a binary in housing solutions, where bipartisan work to effectively address the shortage rarely gets accomplished.
The ability to create and affect housing infrastructure at a federal level is an incredibly potent power, but change can be made from all sides of the political spectrum to meet the needs of the vulnerable in this nation.
“Everyone should be concerned about this,” Tia Boatman Patterson wrote.
