America’s Housing Policy: Charting a Course for Recovery
The U.S. housing market has just suffered its most significant downturn in our nation's history. Millions of people have lost their homes and millions more are struggling to avoid foreclosure. Others who want to buy a home can't due to tighter credit standards. Vacancy rates for rental properties are falling while rents themselves are on the rise. Why has the main component of the American Dream become such a nightmare for so many families, and how will Federal policymakers respond?
On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 former U.S. Senator and Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Mel Martinez will give the 13th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture, presented by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge.