What Should the Next President Do to Ease the Housing Crisis?
We’ll examine the plan and how much of a role the country’s housing crisis could play in this fall’s election.
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Show Notes
Vice President Kamala Harris has released a set of proposals she says will make housing more affordable if she’s elected president in November. Her ideas include tax incentives to encourage more home construction, down payment assistance for homebuyers, and rules to make it harder for corporate investors to buy up single family houses. We’ll examine the plan and how much of a role the country’s housing crisis could play in this fall’s election.
Guests:
Mike Madrid, Republican strategist; co-founder, The Lincoln Project. His new book is "The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority is Transforming Democracy."<br />
Erin Baldassari, senior editor of housing affordability, KQED
Yonah Freemark, principal research associate, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute
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