Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free.

This week's newsletter takes a look at the Trump administration's proposal to create a 50-year mortgage product to rival the 30-year mortgage that became standard during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration. Mortgage analysts are split on whether this is a benign, even beneficial, idea or a complete catastrophe.

Also covered this week is the surefire catastrophe that is the proposed D.C. ballot initiative that would freeze rents and tighten the city's inclusionary zoning requirements.

Last but not least, we cover a new lawsuit from a California developer whose apartment project was singled out for exclusion from the state's streamlining of its environmental review laws.

The Pros and Cons of a 50-Year Mortgage

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