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It’s unfortunate that we must ask the question: What happens when a good bill meets a seemingly indifferent administration?

Alan Greenspan was the Henry Kissinger of economic policy. Both men caused enormous harm and suffering for which they were never held accountable. The biggest influence on Greenspan was Ayn Rand.

This country was founded on the idea of being rooted to where you live — but the corporate state has flipped the script. Since America’s founding, housing initiatives have helped citizens to put down roots in the spirit of Republican self-governance

But Trump will make it worse

With a new executive order and model state legislation criminalizing homelessness, the richest people in the U.S. are making it easier to lock up the poorest. Today in Washington, DC the order is out - lock up the unhoused.

Young people carried Zohran Mamdani in his victory in the mayoral primary, stunning establishment Democrats and reshaping the electorate. Nowhere was this more clear than the so-called “Commie Corridor,” where young voters had extremely high turnout.

As HUD secretary, Scott Turner would oversee billions in housing aid, but as a Texas state legislator he voted against protections for poor tenants and has called government assistance “one of the most destructive things for the family.”

Instead of treating real estate as a commodity, we can underwrite the construction of millions of homes and apartments that, by law, must remain affordable.

Both homelessness & inflation are the result of America allowing housing to become a commodity that can be traded & speculated in by financial markets & overseas investors...

"We really need a revolution in housing and how we deal with housing," said Sen. Bernie Sanders at a gathering on the issue.