After failing to make a significant dent in the problem over the last decade, state and federal lawmakers across the U.S. are making housing a priority in 2024 and throwing the kitchen sink at the issue — including proposals to enact eviction protections, institute zoning reforms, cap annual rent increases and dedicate tens of billions of dollars toward building more housing.
They haven’t done anything for decades…
But we should believe them now in the run up to an election that after the next election they’ll really do something.
They’ve been saying the same thing as far back as I can remember, but as soon as their elected they go back to ignoring it.
We need to get the Republicans and neoliberals out of office if we want actual progress. Neither of them will actually fix this shit, because the people donating them money don’t want it fixed.
The most we’ll get is billions to real estate moguls to subsidize them building high end housing that doesn’t address the issue.