Instead of treating real estate as a commodity, we can underwrite the construction of millions of permanently affordable homes and apartments.

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Instead of treating real estate as a commodity, we can underwrite the construction of millions of permanently affordable homes and apartments.

Residents rarely learn how data centers and their noise and energy and water use may affect their lives until it’s too late.

Kamala Harris’s proposals won’t fix the housing affordability crisis. The solution can be found in the way the U.S. raised the legal drinking age.