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Harris puts housing at center of economic pitch to US voters

U.S. home prices have risen 50% in the last five years and rents have risen 35%, according to real estate firm Zillow.

“I keep hearing about the suburban woman doesn’t like Trump,” he said at a campaign event in Howell, Michigan last week. “I keep the suburbs safe. I stopped low-income towers from rising right alongside of their house, and I’m keeping the illegal aliens away from the suburbs.”

At an Aug. 16 campaign stop in North Carolina, Harris called for building 3 million more housing units in four years, on top of the 1 million or so built annually by the private sector, through a new tax credit for developers who build homes aimed at first-time homebuyers and a $25,000 tax credit for those buyers.

  1. Trump’s remarks are reminiscent of how red lining was pushed. Same language. John Oliver did a great piece on it.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-0J49_9lwc

  1. Harris’s plan is estimated to cost tax payers a lot long term. However, that is what investments in our future will look like.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan watchdog group, estimates those policies would cost at least $200 billion over 10 years.

Jagothaciv ,

I feel the problem will only get solved if we eliminate housing as an investment. The housing market has obviously been gamed and is a false indicator of wealth. There is no way a 1200 sf POS house is worth $300,000.

Bluefalcon OP ,

Agree. We have politicians ballooning the market and most are share holders, landlords, or developers. We also need to reevaluate school funding using property taxes. Different beast but still attached at the hip.

Waveform ,

Either we get affordable code-compliant housing or we get affordable shanty towns.

grue ,

A lot of places appear to be trying to go for option C: persecuting homelessness in order to bring back Victorian-style workhouses and expand prison slavery.

MyOpinion ,

Housing has gone off the rails. Everything needs to be done to fix this.

HubertManne ,

directly build housing and sell it for cost so the system renews itself and brings down housing costs.

Bluefalcon OP ,

That would require a lot of red tape for the government. Doing a spacex model could work though. Pick a industry leader and partner with the us government to aid in the whole process.

Two things,

  1. You will have to partner with, at minimal, a decent owner. Require that only union approved works build the product. Require union works to make up a percentage of the board. Require a minimum percentage of revenue to be invested in innovation and research.
  2. Require social, economic, and environmental research to be the driving force and implement their recommendations. Lay out their goals (i.e. decrease the gap between white and minority ownership, CO2 reduction / neutral production, bloated budgets / unnecessary spending).

People need to look at houses as a universal necessity , not an investment.

HubertManne ,

I mean thats fine to me. I want them to make real estate one of the poorest payout investments. Lucky to make over cost.

MCasq_qsaCJ_234 ,

Lower regulations for building houses and encourage the construction of houses. Also build a subway near the suburbs to reduce car use.

There is a lot of unused land because there are no basic services or they do not meet demand. This should also be encouraged.

grue ,

I think it’s important to be clear about what “lower regulations” should mean. Loosening safety or energy efficiency standards would be bad, but eliminating minimum parking requirements would be good.

(Parking really is the issue here, by the way. For example, an 800 ft^2^ 2-bedroom apartment is forced to become effectively 1200 ft^2^ if code requires 1 parking space per bedroom, singlehandedly driving up costs by more than 50% because concrete parking decks are more expensive per square foot than living space is.)

Crackhappy ,
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This is the same shit as the old shit.

Bluefalcon OP ,

Hold there feet to the fire (not a threat ). We let people get in office and allow them to slide bc they are “team”. Keep pushing for more progressive programs.

The US average voting turn out for elections are low. We need to be more active. That is how we got these broken laws. Racist and oppressive people vote, EVERY TIME. If you don’t see that person, then run for a local spot. That is actual change.

Deceptichum ,
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Haha tax credits and incentives, anything but build social housing.

Bluefalcon OP ,

We can’t abandon better for perfect.

FlyingSquid ,
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The fun part is when you ask people like this who Americans should vote for in November and they don’t answer.

Bluefalcon OP ,

At this point, if you openly support or vote for Trump, you are a dog shit person. He is not trying to hide it. A few works might be changed bit it is the same message.

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