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Nationalization could be an effective way to curb this political power and open the door to reform. Another advantage of nationalization is that it gives the government greater knowledge, understanding, and capabilities within the financial markets, and may enhance the government's ability to act effectively during times of crisis. [21]
Nationalization may produce other effects, such as reducing competition in the marketplace, which in turn reduces incentives to innovation and maintains high prices. In the short run, nationalization can provide a larger revenue stream for government but may cause that industry to falter depending on the motivations of the nationalizing party.
There is an existence of a dual housing market that results in unequal housing opportunities for different populations of people. The basis of the dual housing market model is that similar housing opportunities are available to different racial groups at different prices. There are many explanations for the existence of a dual housing market.
Traditional wisdom states that the real estate market needs 5 to 6 months of housing supply to be balanced, or not leaning toward either a buyer’s market or seller’s market. NAR existing-home ...
In July, the housing market had a 4.0-month supply of housing inventory, a 19.8 percent improvement over last year but still below the 5 to 6 months needed for a healthy, balanced market — one ...
It's an oversupply of properties, not a lack of inventory, roiling Japan's housing market. According to Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, nearly 9,000,000 vacant properties ...
Critics of U.S. affordable housing policies have cited three aspects of governmental affordable housing policy as having contributed to the financial crisis: the Community Reinvestment Act, HUD-regulated affordable housing mandates imposed upon Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and HUD's direct efforts to promote affordable housing through state and ...
Sowell, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, explores political and economic causes of the American housing crisis.For example, he links the Community Reinvestment Act to decreased lending standards that resulted in an increase of subprime mortgages, as the law forced banks to set up quotas of lending to minorities.