Posted on 08/05/2024 11:06:45 AM PDT by simpson96
With Massachusetts still in the grip of a crushing housing affordability and access crisis, one Bay State lawmaker says she has a plan to help.
Legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., would spend roughly a half-trillion dollars to encourage the construction of new housing, bring down costs for renters, and make it easier for first-time buyers and veterans to purchase homes, among other fixes.
"The only way to dig our country out of this housing crisis is to build more housing so everyone has a place to call home,” Warren, who is running for re-election this fall, said of the bill dubbed the “American Housing and Economic Mobility Act.
The legislation, a reboot of an earlier version, will “make bold investments in our country’s housing and encourage local innovation to lower housing costs even more — and it’s all paid for by getting America’s wealthiest families to chip in,” Warren continued.
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Dozens of nonprofit and advocacy groups also have thrown their support to the legislation, Warren’s office said in its statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...
Another half a trillion dollars down the toilet!
A half-trillion dollars is heap-big wampum!
2024 is our last chance. This is just more evidence. It is so obvious but the entire media establishment is determined to give these nation killing people total control. Idiots
Not nuts.
Evil.
“The only way to dig our country out of this housing crisis is to build more housing so everyone has a place to call home, we do this by spending even more money - most of which will go to my friends in high places”, she said.
Half a trillion here, half a trillion there and pretty soon you’re talking real money!
Let her pay for it. I don’t want to.
2024 is our last chance. This is just more evidence. It is so obvious but the entire media establishment is determined to give these nation killing people total control. Idiots
.... because the day the stock market crashes is a GREAT time to push a vast new FedGuv spending boondoggle.
Only half-a-trillion, Liz? You clearly don’t care about the problem if that is all you are offering.
She’s borrowing a page from California, where $24 billion went down the toilet.
It’s about time someone solved the homelessness problem.
I’m going to vote for her. I’m in Washington state, and she’s in Massachusetts, but I think it’s okay to vote for her because she’s a democrat, right?
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to allow illegals to break into your home and steal it?
That IS the real reason why they are pushing for Red Flag and Gun Control.
So you can’t defend your life or property.
Teepees for everyone!
You beat me to it.
She’s been hitting the firewater.
In this case both nuts and evil.
These females don’t know what the hell they’re doing. To them, economics is something like the dark side of the moon or solving Rubik’s Cube.
The “non-profits” and “advocay groups” don’t pay taxes. That’s why they support it. You can support every crazy idea the government comes up with when you ride for free.
Doable. Aren’t teepees cheap?
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