Caroline Nagy is the Associate Director of Housing Policy at AFR/AFREF. Her research and advocacy work focuses on fighting housing displacement, climate change, affordable housing, and consumer financial protection. She was previously the Senior Housing Strategist at the New York Civil Liberties Union, and has also worked for the Center for NYC Neighborhoods, Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, and the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. She has organized several coalitions, including United to End Homelessness, a coalition of more than 100 organizations created to highlight New York City’s homelessness crisis during the 2013 Mayoral election, and the Coalition for Affordable Homes, which works to prevent displacement and support long-time residents of working-class neighborhoods. She received a JD from NYU School of Law in 2010, and graduated from Ohio University with a BA and MA in Political Science.
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AFREF Commentary: 4 Reasons Why We Should Ban the Use of Credit Scores in Property Insurance
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While people might assume that insurance companies set their property insurance rates solely or primarily by evaluating the risk profile of individual homes, a homeowner’s credit characteristics are often a bigger driver of the price of homeowner’s insurance. As Federal Reserve researchers put it in a new report, insurers often price rates for “who is living in the house rather than the risk of the house.”
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Real Reform to Confront Private Equity Takeover of the Nation’s Housing
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Rising housing costs are a critical driver of the current affordability crisis, and they cannot be addressed without genuinely confronting the role of private equity and big investors buying up the nation’s housing stock.
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Actually Addressing the Affordable Housing Emergency
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This week, President Trump announced that he is “taking steps” to ban institutional investors from acquiring more single-family homes as part of a plan to deal with housing affordability.
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Rushing to Privatize Fannie and Freddie Would Make Housing More Expensive While Putting the Entire U.S. Economy at Risk
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The Trump administration has called for the recapitalization and return to private control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which provide critical support for the mortgage market.