We write about what we know and what we're watching — federal policy, government finance, real estate markets, AI, and the structural forces shaping the economy. We don't write to market ourselves. We write because we think these conversations matter.
House Strategies Group serves clients across the political spectrum — federal agencies, private contractors, nonprofits, and small businesses. Our professional work is and will remain nonpartisan. We are advisors, not advocates, and our clients' success does not depend on our politics.
That said, some of what we write addresses government policy, democratic institutions, and the forces shaping public life. Jelani House has political views, and some of this writing reflects them honestly. We believe that silence on consequential matters is itself a position — and not one we're comfortable with. Our professional conduct is held to one standard; our intellectual independence is held to another. We keep both.
If you are a client or prospective client: our work together will never be colored by political considerations. If you need assurance beyond that, we're happy to talk.
Each tool in this suite emerges from direct experience in government finance, federal real estate, and the procurement process — combined with AI-enabled automation. The same rigor we bring to client engagements, turned into products.
A full-cycle transaction management platform for HUD Multifamily and Healthcare note sale programs — replacing the fragmented, contractor-stitched tooling currently used across loan sale programs with a single, secure, purpose-built environment.
A live intelligence tool monitoring executive actions, regulatory shifts, and legislative developments — analyzed through the lens of reversibility and downstream impact on government contractors, financial services firms, and federal program administrators. Updated continuously.
Open Tracker →An AI-assisted dashboard surfacing delinquency trends, claim rate trajectories, and stress indicators across FHA-insured Multifamily and Healthcare loan pools. Built for servicers, note sale participants, and federal housing finance advisors who need early warning signals without wading through raw HMDA, FHA, and Ginnie Mae data releases.
Updated on each major data release cycle. Plain-language risk assessments by program type, geography, and loan cohort.
An AI-powered drafting tool that generates RFIs, RFPs, Statements of Work, evaluation criteria, and other procurement artifacts from plain-language inputs — reducing the time, expertise burden, and friction required for agencies to competitively acquire goods and services from the private sector.
Designed for both contracting officers and program offices without dedicated procurement staff.
A structural analysis of how democratic accountability erodes — not through singular acts of corruption, but through the patient accumulation of institutional concessions. Draws on Roman history, the Framers' unfinished work, and the sociology of ruling-class secession. One of the more serious things we've published.
Read Essay →When enforcement actions are wielded selectively and disproportionately against small and minority-owned firms, the result is not accountability — it's a chilling effect on exactly the firms federal contracting programs were designed to support.
What happens when the organizations built to advocate for small and minority-owned businesses choose silence over conflict? An examination of institutional cowardice in the face of political pressure.
Automated enforcement systems promise efficiency. But when they interact with communities that have thin financial margins, the result is a cascade of penalties that functions as a regressive tax.
In ancient Greek music theory, the Locrian mode was the most unstable — dissonant by nature, with a flattened fifth that refused to resolve cleanly. We may be living through the Locrian age of AI. What does it mean to build in that environment?
Labor force participation data carries a disturbing trend — a steady withdrawal of prime-age workers, disproportionately concentrated among men without college degrees and communities of color. This piece takes that data personally.
Housing finance policy consistently produces a system optimized for the median case — which means that when stress arrives at the margins, the response is to celebrate survivors rather than interrogate why the structure failed the rest.
In conversation with futurist Roger Spitz, we explored what the next decade of work looks like for advisory firms at the intersection of government and private markets — and the harder questions about who gets augmented and on whose terms.
A reflection on why House Strategies Group exists — not as a business plan, but as an expression of a longer arc. What we're building, what we're building it for, and what success looks like when you're thinking in generations rather than quarters.
