5 at 5: Your Daily Digest for Real Estate Investing, 10/20/2020

Electing affordable housing, student housing "black swan," Amazon and CRE, housing starts, and an mREIT to consider. This piece on GlobeSt.com looks at policy statements and practices and concludes that while either Trump or Biden could choose to make housing affordability a priority in their administration -- and either could make a big impact -- each candidate would certainly use different methods. Why it matters: The multiple ways affordable housing can attract, reward, or tax private investment could see some real change, whether the incumbent or challenger wins the White House.