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 ...
Massholes
Deport 15 million illegals and the problem fixes itself or the most part.
“She wants to buy teepees”
Cheapee teepees
They won’t let anyone build houses then complain that housing is getting to expensive.....
Could you imagine? 1/2 trillion dollars until they also put in that everything must be union labor, DEI etc. Before you know it it is 3 trillion dollars. Then because the country is broke all the houses are sitting in the elements for years left in the framing stage. Sort of like California’s high speed rail boondoggle.
A mere half trillion dollars? Fauxcahontas is slipping in her old age.
Remove the 60 million illegals and there would be plenty of housing.
BTW it’s a violation of section 1324 title 8 to rent to an illegal.
Have another beer sit down and shut up
Hey Rip Van Winkle!
The USA did this just 25 years ago - whule you were evidently sleeping.
The legislation, a reboot of an earlier version...
I hear that CHINA has a LOT of empty housing - new! - just sitting empty!!!
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=CHINA+has+a+LOT+of+empty+housing&iax=images&ia=images
Come Fakahontus. You can do better than half a trillion. Go for a full trillion. With all the efficiency of government, half a trillion will only get the country around 1000 units of housing at best.
“...honest with pollsters...”
Heck fire, partner, they ain’t being honest with themselves even in private.
wy69
“...honest with pollsters...”
Heck fire, partner, they ain’t being honest with themselves even in private.
wy69
“I don’t know it that makes you feel any better.”
I have realized there is more than one way to skin a cat since I got past pablum...but it still leaves you a bloody cat. Thank you for the entry. You understand the quandrum.
wy69
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