Real estate should rethink affordable housing

Marcie Geffner

Experts may disagree on whether the Chinese characters for "crisis" can or cannot be equated to the words "danger" and "opportunity." But regardless of ancient-language etymology, the concepts of danger and opportunity are appropriate to today's housing crisis.

There's no doubt that the crisis has caused a lot of pain. Lenders and investors have lost their shirts. Realtors and mortgage brokers have lost their livelihoods. And home buyers, many of them first-timers or minorities, have lost their homes.

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