The Republican Retreat on Housing Reform: Part II

By Christopher Papagianis November 9, 2011

  Last week, I highlighted an ongoing debate in the House that could mark a Republican retreat from the party’s pledge to pare back government control of the housing market. There is ...

Will House Republicans Break Their Pledge?

By Christopher Papagianis November 1, 2011

Soon, we may know if House Republicans are planning to break their pledge to start paring back the government’s control of the housing market. During the 2010 elections, House Republicans published ...

Does the Deal Really Cover Obama Through the Election?

By Christopher Papagianis August 9, 2011

President Obama indicated that one of his main objectives in the budget negotiations was to raise the debt ceiling by an amount that would cover the government through the 2012 ...

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House of Doubt

By Christopher Papagianis July 28, 2011

The ongoing struggles of the housing market are contributing to the softness of our overall economic recovery. Over the last couple of weeks, the Obama administration has restarted debate about ...

Reform Can Be Incremental, But It Must Be Substantive (And That Means Entitlements)

By Christopher Papagianis July 26, 2011

The president’s primetime address was nothing more than an attempt to reframe the debt-ceiling debate. Nothing substantively new was offered; no new was ground broken, no new details shared about ...

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We Can’t Afford This House

By Christopher Papagianis & Reihan Salam July 20, 2010

At the end of June, the House of Representatives voted to extend the $8,000 homebuyers’ tax credit, by an extraordinary margin of 409–5. The Senate approved the measure on a ...

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We Can’t Afford This House

By Christopher Papagianis & Reihan Salam July 15, 2010

It’s time to end tax benefits and subsidies for homeowners.