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The U.S. housing crisis is a multifaceted mess. Exclusionary zoning, skyrocketing home prices, stagnant wages, and lackluster public investment in affordable housing are just the tip of the iceberg.

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As the first home rolled off the factory floor in Kalamazoo, Michigan — “like a boxcar with picture windows,” according to a journalist on the scene — the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development ...