Posted on 08/24/2024 2:52:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
This isn’t a policy election. There’s no defining issue like tax cuts in 2000 or health care in 2008 or trade in 2016. Democrats are focused on convincing voters that Donald Trump poses an existential threat to the American way of life, and vice versa. But policy remains the purpose of politics, and the choice of a president is also the choice of a housing policy.
Kamala Harris has a plan to address the nation’s housing crisis. Donald Trump (kind of) has one, too. And the differences say a lot about the two candidates.
Housing prices across the country have soared in recent years, dramatically outpacing income growth. Finding an affordable place to live is no longer a problem confined to a few big coastal cities. Millions of Americans cannot buy a place to call home. They cannot settle into a neighborhood, or move to a new city to take a better job.
The cause of the crisis is a shortage of housing. The solution is to build a lot more housing.
Ms. Harris is cleareyed about this need. She has proposed a target of three million new homes, and outlined a number of policies to move toward that goal, including tax incentives for builders, financial support for buyers and a necessary focus on opening land for development by removing state and local regulatory roadblocks.
Mr. Trump also talks about the high cost of housing, but ironically for a man who sees himself as a great builder, the former president hasn’t called for more construction. Instead, in his telling, the housing crisis is just one more problem caused by illegal immigration — one more problem to be fixed with mass deportations.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
There’s no defining issue ...
You want more housing? Stop regulating everything. Stop taxing everything. Stop using the environment as an excuse to block new construction. Stop telling developers what they can or cannot include in their development.
See a pattern here? Government interference in the economy.
Let capitalism work.
Maybe it is implied by the item under the "Powers of Congres": "To establish Post Offices and Post roads." Need to have houses for the mailmen to deliver mail to.
Sh’s had 3 1/2 years to build houses, why hasn’t she done it?
THE MILLIONS OF ACRES OF BURNED FORESTS TOOK AWAY ALOT OF LUMBER.
The very first sentence destroys the premise of the entire article!
You're a liar, Applebaum. There are issues out there that voters care about right in front of your face! How about the cost of food, energy, housing, things that matter to everyone? How about the cost of living?
What about the illegal invasion you are abetting? Don't you see that as an issue? Because a lot of people do.
How about the growth of government, and the consequent growth of Federal debt? Is no one bothered by that?
How about restriction of freedoms through regulation and increasing gov't meddling in private transactions, land ownership and management?
Oh, there are issues all right (these are just a few), but you and the dems don't want to talk about them, so they don't exist, apparently.
You lost me after your first sentence, it was so obviously biased. Complete BS.
Talk about a specious headline. LOL
“There’s no defining issue”
uh, well NYT, except for out-of-control inflation that’s destroying the middle class ... there’s that ...
oh yeah NYT, and out of control illegal immigration that’s destroying the less wealthy classes ... there’s that too ...
“Kamala Harris has a plan to address the nation’s housing crisis.”
no, NYT, Kamala SAYS she has a plan, but simply SAYING she HAS a plan isn’t ACTUALLY a plan, it’s simply a statement ...
Really? What do you call the border? How about the economy?
Deport 50 million illegals (demand) and POOOOOOOF!, no housing crisis (supply). Prices would plummet.
I can't believe there is something in this woke-@$$ Commie platform that I actually agree with. If they would do just that one thing, combined with easing environ-MENTAL restrictions on resources, this problem could mostly resolve itself.
“Does the federal government have any significant role in any of this now?”
EOs. She’ll have a phone and a pen. It seemed to work for Biden during Covid.
What's conveniently not mentioned is the removal of FEDERAL roadblocks. Can't develop land when the EPA has to protect the snail darter or some tiny, slimy invertebrate.
To a Communist like Heels Up, the U.S. Constitution shouldn't exist, especially the Tenth Amendment.
Take heart.
If gaslighting still worked, Deep State wouldn’t have to steal elections, would it?
See “easing environ-MENTAL restrictions.” That would necessarily involve removing some federal regulations.
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