WASHINGTON, June 29, 2018 – Leaders from industry, public policy, and academia are joining a Milken Institute effort to ensure that financial technology innovations are broadly and prudently made available to individuals and businesses...

Among the many stumbling blocks to achieving bipartisan housing finance reform are deep-seated differences in lawmakers views on the role of government sponsored enterprises (GSEs), or their potential successors, in affordable housing. Lack...

In order for developing countries to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the private sector and the countries themselves must be critical providers of funding to achieve the ambitious vision to end poverty, protect...

The Milken Institute and U.S. Small Business Administration Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets (PLUM) initiative aims to increase the amount of capital reaching minority-owned businesses and the number of successful minority...

Milken Institute and Urban Institute experts discuss a draft bill under discussion as of March 2018 in the Senate Banking Committee to reform the housing finance system. Given the breadth and the complexity of the bill, which would...

The housing finance reform debate has regained momentum, as those involved aim to move towards bipartisan housing finance system legislation in 2018. While different approaches have evolved from the discourse about potential reforms of the...

Minority-owned small businesses play an important role in the nation’s economic health by driving job creation, raising wages, and elevating better standards of living in communities throughout the United States. In June 2016, the Milken...

WASHINGTON, DC—The Milken Institute is mobilizing efforts for the next phase of housing finance reform as policymakers work through the complexities of building a sustainable system. Today, the Institute announced a new policy team with...

The challenges of achieving homeownership, particularly for lower- and moderate-income families, remain a perennial issue in housing policy. Yet our public policy discussions of these matters seem old and tired, especially in light of the...

The continuing policy debate over restructuring the plumbing of the secondary mortgage market may ultimately prove to be the easy part—at least politically—of housing finance reform. The past eight years of proposals and counterproposals...