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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.

https://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.

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[-] Waveform@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Waveform@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately you're correct. Even if not everyone is funneled into the prison system, their belongings get taken away and/destroyed. Some even lose beloved pets. I imagine it's extremely demoralizing having your life broken down to zero and having to rebuild again and again.

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