If Republicans Want to Cut Socialists Off at the Knees, Homes Need to Be Affordable Again

Hotair ^ | 11/05/2025 | Beege Welborn

[Olog-hai]

RINOs are socialists, so they would not want to cut themselves off at the knees. More nonsequitur talk.

[pissant]

home prices have dropped this year in many of the top markets.

[Lockbox]

Local, State and Federal Governments have done a lot to make building new homes and apartments more expensive. Regulations, permits, laws, requirements, etc have had a large impact on this cost. On top of that, if your business is renting apartments, again Government had struck regarding areas which increase the cost of offering rental property. Yet the politicians run on “rent too damn high” platforms.

[DennisR]

The problem is that the demand exceeds the supply in a multitude of locations. Blue cities add to this problem by charging exorbitant fees for permits, inspections, environmental assessments, and so forth. In other words, there is really no simple solution to the problem.

[chris haney]

Again ?

[SmokingJoe]

2.2 million illegals deported in 10 months under Trump.
Another 2 million illegals in the second year will start sending home prices down.
That's the best and earliest way.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Again ?

Does that question mean that you think homes were never affordable before?

[MinorityRepublican]

Blue cities add to this problem by charging exorbitant fees for permits, inspections, environmental assessments, and so forth.

Everyone wants to live in Los Angeles and NYC not Des Moines.

$220K in Des Moines or nearly one million in Los Angeles.

[matt04]

Agreed. I would also like to see companies like black rock who just buy up houses, site unseen, to turn them into rentals addressed somehow.

[Alberta's Child]

Here’s a crazy idea that crossed my mind back when the real estate market was in chaos after 2008-09:

Allow first-time home buyers with sufficient income to convert some of their student loan debt to mortgage credits.

Basically, this would allow someone to take a portion of their debt up to a certain cap (say $50,000) and convert it to a “down payment credit” on a qualified home. The $50,000 would remain on the books as an unpaid student loan debt, but it would carry an interest rate of 0% and would only be repaid upon the sale or refinancing of the home.

This would let these (mostly young) home buyers overcome the two biggest hurdles they face when buying a home: (1) saving up enough money for a down payment, and (2) having a sufficient positive cash flow to qualify for a mortgage while paying off student loan debt.

[lastchance]

I was thinking the same thing.

[Henry Hnyellar]

The average size of a new single-family home built in the U.S. in 1981 was approximately 1,700 square feet. In 2017 it was 2,631. By the end of 2014 it was 2,384.

The average home mortgage rate in 1981 was 16.63%, which is the highest recorded figure by Freddie Mac. In 2025 they are around 5.375% to 6.500%. [I think I saw some in the 4 range recently].

The average home price in 1981 was $304k, adjusted to 2025 dollars. The average house price in the United States as of the fourth quarter of 2023 was $417,700.

[factmart]

It’s not the price, it’s the interest rate, that’s killing the housing market. Trump better get housing going and hamburger prices down or midterms will be a blood bath.

[rellic]

There is a simple solution shoot all the Democrats.
That of course is not going to happen, but that
is where all our problems come from.

I live in a Home on 5 acres and my only physical connections to the outside world is a private company power cable and a road.
No water, sewer, cable, telephone, or any other utility they can use to enslave me at a whim.
I happen to live where this is very do-able
due to natural resources. If I were allowed
to burn trash, I would never go to the dump.
I would then be able to recycle everything.
Drives Democrats NUTS! I can live
free of their “Control”.
Housing is too expensive because of
Earth worshipers regulations, designed
to force people into crowded “slums”.
There is plenty of land for all in America,
if we had roads, and freedoms.
Prices would drop. But NO! we can’t have more private transportation, private water supplies,
private sewer systems, and Acreage to spread out.
We’d be free and not oppressed by Democrat tyrants.
Luckily my Hawaii big island tyrants
are too busy trying to build empires
to mess with me.
And most the worker “bees” have the same attitude
I have, Big Island, few people, and we don’t need
enemies.
Aloha

[citizen]

How you going to undo the inflation caused by 50 years of post-gold standard fiat money and the petrodollar scheme...?

[Captain Peter Blood]

You want affordable housing, then you have to have a balanced budget and pay down and off the National Debt to start with, then we have to move to a currency backed by something like a basket of hard commodities.

[pissant]

Good lord, they are going to blame Trump for Bidens interest rates and beef prices? He’s practically ripped the heads off of the Fed reserve browbeating them to lower rates, which they just started doing, finally.

If he gets dinged for inherited high beef prices, does he also get credit for the actual lower pork, egg, fish, cheese and gas prices?

FFS, snap out of it.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I was watching a YouTube video tonight on how the Germans in the 1930’s managed to make their economy look like it had recovered and was paying for their re-militrazation.

It was a Giant Ponzi Scheme that was certainly creative. Will the U.S. take their plan and update it for today and try to pull that sleight of hand off? Nothing would surprise me. Probably trying to do this Bitcoin, etc..

[rellic]

You make good points for a strong economy!
I was trying to say free up more land since the
government owns so much of it they can do that.
Put in roads and things will develop.
People can spread out and they will.