MBANow: MBA President & CEO David Stevens on Need for Housing Policy Director

In the latest MBANow video, MBA President and CEO David Stevens, CMB, discusses the need for the next Administration to create a new position, U.S. Housing Policy Director.  

“We are facing a very significant housing affordability crisis,” Stevens said. “This has to be solved in the next Administration.”  

Stevens, a former FHA administrator, wrote a recent op-ed in The Hill (http://bit.ly/2bSYAnF), outlining the duties of such a director and calling for its creation at the White House level.    

“The next administration needs to change the dialogue on housing,” Stevens said, noting a housing policy director could cut through regulatory red tape and coordinate a comprehensive housing policy.  

“Housing is one-fifth of the gross domestic product in this country,” Stevens said. “It should be one of the top five economic platforms of any President’s agenda.”  

To view the video, click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_hvMreo424&feature=em-uploademail.