Reply #65: Build housing - Build housing everywhere [View All]

[truedelphi]

if there were more homes,then there would not be a situation wherein people are spending 35% to
60 % of their income on housing.

It will never fly - the Democrats who have their homes in lovely bedroom communities don't want their house value prices to fall - so they are as adamant as Republicans about keeping the housing shortage in effect all across the nation in the more accessible (to work areas) locales

But you can't have a democracy unless you have a middle class and you can't have a middle class without home ownership

LASTLY - you can't outsource the building of a home. The trades have to be here in person to accomplish the task. It is one of the things that kept the economy at a steady pace throughout the fifties - new homes, new schools,new hospitals were being built everywhere.

Today it seems like <sigh> all we build is prisons