In late May, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) under Trump-appointee and acting director Russell Vought launched a newly redesigned website that deprioritized consumer complaints and reframed the CFPB as a deregulatory agency rather than the nation’s only financial watchdog focused on protecting consumers in the market. As part of this overhaul, the Trump-Vought CFPB deleted the agency’s blog and removed all press releases prior to February 2025.
This is a resource for institutional investors, including pension trustees, seeking to better understand what recent turmoil in private credit could mean for their portfolios.
This memo catalogues the negative impact of large-scale corporate ownership of single-family home and the impacts of the “build-to-rent” industry on housing affordability and supply.
Insurance companies have increased homeowners insurance premiums by an average of 24 percent from 2021 to 2024 nationwide. They are raising premiums for multifamily housing too, which results in higher rents and higher costs for new affordable housing. The rising cost of insurance is adding extra financial strain on too many U.S. families at a time when cost of living concerns are at their highest.
State insurance commissioners and legislators play a critical role in determining the insurance premiums people pay for their home insurance.[1] Insurance companies have increased homeowners insurance premiums by an average of 24 percent from 2021 to 2024 nationwide.[2] Premium rates are rising far faster in many places across the country including in a geographically diverse
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