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How the proposed budget and tax cuts could stunt new affordable housing

  • Written by Michelle D. Layser, Research Fellow, Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University
imageFor many Americans, there is no such thing as affordable housing in today's real estate market.Aleutie/Shutterstock.com

Low-income Americans are already struggling to keep a roof over their heads due to a growing affordable housing shortage.

But budgets drafted by the Trump administration and Congress, along with provisions in the tax cut package,...

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