She began by asking about the shortage of 4 to 7 million homes in the U.S., and whether that was a shortage of all homes or affordable ones. This interview has been lightly edited for length and ...

As it stands now, "rent prices are 33.5% higher than they were before the pandemic," said NerdWallet. And prices are still inching upward — between October 2023 and October 2024, "rents were 3.3 ...