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When the pandemic hit, it threatened to cause not only a health and economic catastrophe, but a financial one. While businesses closed and jobs lost, emergency relief programs for renters and mortgages helped avoid a wider crisis in housing markets.

Mark Calabria, senior advisor at the Cato Institute, was the former director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. He joins Manhattan Insights (with guest host Judge Glock) to discuss his new book, Shelter from the Storm: How a COVID Mortgage Meltdown Was Averted.

Follow Mark Calabria on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarkCalabria

Learn more and buy his book: https://store.cato.org/products/shelter-from-the-storm

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Check out Judge Glock on MI: https://manhattan.institute/person/judge-glock