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The economists find that dwindling competition has cost the country approximately 150,000 additional homes a year.

Extreme inequality is troubling both because it fosters gross and wasteful consumption and because it undermines the principle of political equality: Nearly unencumbered transfers of wealth permitted under current law perpetuate those imbalances, creating dynasties of the rich and hampering economic and social mobility.

Tens of thousands of people have received demands to repay alleged overpayments of government benefits – often decades old – plunging them into a Kafkaesque struggle against a faceless bureaucracy.

The goal, officials say, is to correct a history of “racially discriminatory” housing policy.

Megacities are too costly and seem immune to reform, while rural America is depopulating and lacks resources.

Proposals that base their remedies primarily on formerly redlined areas do not redress the main racial group that was explicitly targeted.

Scarce, unaffordable housing is not a local problem in a few places, but is baked into the 21st-century global city. And it’s worst in the developing world.

Shaker Heights, Ohio, has been a national model for racial integration for decades. Tackling academic disparities between Black and White students has proven far tougher.

The Trump administration blocked the nation’s top consumer protection agency from digging into problems with a program designed to help police, firefighters and other public service workers.

There’s got to be some despairing people thinking: “I wish I were the repo market because then policymakers would help me the minute I needed help.”

Stop to think this over for a minute: For the first time in the past hundred years, the working class — the 50 percent of Americans with the lowest incomes — today pays higher tax rates than billionaires.

Congress envisioned a white, Protestant and culturally homogeneous America when it declared in 1790 that only “free white persons, who have, or shall migrate into the United States” were eligible to become naturalized citizens.

Maryland’s largest jurisdiction has an affordable housing shortage — and according to one local official, a segment of the population has not been contributing its fair share to address it.

When it comes to economic development, positive change is typically gradual and only noticeable over long periods of time; by contrast negative developments—economic crises—are often rapid and spectacular.