Harris's Housing Plan: A Recipe for Disaster?
Fri Sep 06 2024
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Kamala Harris recently unveiled her housing plan, which proposes to build 3 million new units and provide $100 billion in down payment assistance.
Sounds good on paper, but history shows us this approach has consistently failed for decades. The subsidies will likely raise prices, as many first-time buyers would have bought anyway. And the construction incentives face challenges like cost overruns, corruption, and competition from private developers.
We've seen this movie before - it ends in busts, foreclosures, and lasting scars on cities.
Instead of more subsidies, we need a paradigm shift: deregulate zoning to boost supply at no taxpayer cost.
https://localnews.ai/article/harriss-housing-plan-a-recipe-for-disaster-fbcc3e27
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