The Housing Squeeze Puts the American Dream at Risk

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, senior Washington correspondent Saleha Mohsin and producer Julia Press focus the Big Take DC podcast on the impact of high housing costs. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

US mortgage rates have doubled over the past three years, and the ripples from the global financial meltdown from more than a decade ago still linger.