Good morning.
Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 85. Sunrise is 5:26 and sunset is 8:33 for 15 hours 7 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning crescent with 11.8% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1914, Babe Ruth makes his Major League Baseball debut.
The long-running campaign of a few local landlords to prevent an increase in the housing supply runs counter to the goals of both major national parties:
The 21st Century Road to Housing Act, a bipartisan bill that aims to tackle housing affordability, officially became law early Saturday, despite a series of attempts by President Donald Trump to stall the legislation.
Its passage signals that lawmakers recognize the frustration many Americans feel about the high cost of housing. At a time of elevated mortgage rates and near-record high home prices, many feel locked out of homeownership or struggle with monthly rent payments.
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The nation’s housing affordability crisis did not stem from a single event or policy failure. It is the result of years of underbuilding, restrictive local zoning, rising demand and policy decisions and, in many cases, policy inaction.
The legislation reflects the complexity of the crisis, combining a total of 47 proposals aimed at increasing housing supply, reducing costs and expanding access to affordable homes.
But immediate relief may not come just yet for homeowners and renters, said Yonah Freemark, a housing research associate at the Urban Institute. Building new homes takes time, and the law gives short-staffed federal government agencies a new workload to manage.
“We’re talking about a situation where not only will the federal government have to make changes, but then state and local governments also will have to make changes and then businesses, developers, etcetera will have to make investments, which itself takes time,” Freemark said.
(Emphasis added.) See Samantha Delouya, Sweeping housing affordability bill becomes law, despite Trump’s delay. Here’s what it actually means for the housing market, CNN Business, July 10, 2026. See also The Growing Consensus for More Housing.
These few area gentlemen find themselves out of step with the national consensus in the most advanced and productive society in human history. Not for the first time; perhaps not for the last time….
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Upcoming posts (in no decided order): A Whitewater Comparative Analysis and a New Ethics Ordinance.
Fans gather in Times Square to celebrate 10 years of Pokémon GO: