Housing Offers Harris Some Help as Mortgage Rates Plunge

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, politics editor Laura Davison looks at housing as a campaign issue after a plunge in mortgage rates. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

Mortgage costs have hit their lowest levels in more than a year — a boon for potential homebuyers, and potentially for Democrats who are grasping for good economic news to tout.