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Impossible-Pick-5452 on
Honestly, it makes sense that renters lean toward Harris her plans actually address the housing crisis directly, while Trump’s approach seems more vague and focused on suburbs. Renters need clear solutions, not just talk.
sideAccount42 on
Still waiting for Bloomberg backed London Breed to sign the Realpage ban in San Francisco that’s been waiting for her signature for like a month now. I get that she doesn’t want to give Peskin a win in the mayoral race but he’s polling in the single digits.
notcaffeinefree on
Trump is literally a real estate mogul who, at one point, was illegally discriminating against renting to minorities.
Why in hell would he be better at housing? His literal business is about screwing the little guy to make sure the rich get richer.
Tokie-Dokie on
Maybe they’re not aware of the tremendous benefits to be found by selling off all of our federal lands to
real-estate developers.
milton911 on
Because, let’s be clear here, Trump and Vance don’t give a damn about renters.
BarfHurricane on
Trump is obviously not going to lift a finger to help people with housing, that’s a given and he shouldn’t even be in the conversation.
But I’m honestly disappointed that Harris and Walz are basically saying the only way out of housing crisis is more Reagan style supply side economics (here come the downvotes). Americans have decades that show that this does not work for something so essential as putting your roof over your head, especially when there is rampant crony capitalism involved.
Americans need mass regulations for housing, for example:
– elimination of junk fees and forced services that you can’t opt out of like trash valet services and mail delivery services in rental properties
– elimination of collusion and anti trust violations amongst landlords and developers
– eliminating “build to rent” single family home communities
– severely limiting corporate ownership of housing, for both foreign and domestic companies so that citizens can own more of the supply rather than holdings companies
These seem like no brainer regulations, and they are barely even on the radar. But of course it impacts Wall Street profits so thus the corporate owned media will use its propaganda machine to convince people that all regulations are bad.
reck1265 on
Trump hates renters. He thinks they are poor for not being able to buy houses.
SodaCanBob on
Trump and Vance give off the vibe that they would buy my apartment complex and raise rent by 80% while firing most of the maintenance team, landscapers, and never fix the pool or gate.
Spottswoodeforgod on
And some don’t?
pleachchapel on
As someone who is voting Harris/Walz, but also works in mortgage, I’m extremely curious how this whole $25k first-time homebuyer thing will work, & also how the 3 million new units will work. Very little has been laid out in terms of specifics.
This industry is packed to the gills with crafty people without cumbersome morals & a huge appetite for money. I don’t want to see this go the way of California’s homelessness efforts, with billions of dollars flushed 1) into connected pockets 2) down the drain.
Since this appears to be one of her primary policy promises, it would be nice to open the conversation about the nuts & bolts of how this actually happens in a way that it isn’t abused.
autotldr on
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://fortune.com/2024/10/02/renters-harris-trump-housing-survey/) reduced by 84%. (I’m a bot)
*****
> Close to half of renters think Vice President Kamala Harris would be better for making housing more affordable and almost a third think former President Donald Trump would be better, according to a Redfin-commissioned survey.
> He found homeowners are twice as likely to identify themselves as strongly Republican than renters, and renters far more often identify themselves as strongly Democrat.
> Half of all renter households were considered cost-burdened in 2022, totalling 22.4 million renters, the highest on record, a report from Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies recently found.
Adding people through immigration can only act to increase rent and mortgage prices when they enter those markets. I’m sure that landlords would be happy with it because any kind of price fixing won’t work.
Supply and demand is such a simple concept.
PixelatedDie on
We need nationwide rent control. This price fixing software is killing us.
DustyBusterson on
Most renters would vote for the candidates who are more like their friendly neighbors, instead of the candidates who remind them of their scummy landlord.
Huckleberry-V on
Well yeah, she told me she wants to subsidize my first home purchase. I can’t imagine it’ll help the cost of housing making it easier to secure the loans, though. Then again once I’m a homeowner I actually want prices to go up.
Defelj on
Does anybody have a fucking clue what trumps plans are for housing?
bertaderb on
Really? “Build millions of new houses, and oh permitting reform to speed this up” beat out “DEPORT THE DIRTY ILLEGALS”?
Shocker.
The_Bard on
Weird how people are convinced by an actual plan and not just ‘we”ll sell government land!’
Ritz527 on
Obviously. The rambling moron thinks the answer is to deport 15% of our construction workers.
JerHat on
25k For first time home buyers would be huge for a lot of people.
I do worry the cost of a home will go up because of it, but at the same time… what’s the other side proposing? We’ll tariff so hard everyone will get free housing?
whatlineisitanyway on
How does she do with renters outside of urban centers though?
notevenapro on
Not so sure giving people 25k for a down payment is smart. I think a civilian version of the VA backed home loan might be a better approach.
aliceisasleeeeep on
Duh!
Bullymongodoggo on
She might not do much, but I’ll take not much over not a goddamn thing which is what you’d get with trump
Bubbly-Two-3449 on
Some folks seem to think Harris’s plan is just to provide a subsidy for first time homebuyers. It’s more than that.
There is also a supply side component, as well as a regulatory component to address the issue with corporate landlords.
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Honestly, it makes sense that renters lean toward Harris her plans actually address the housing crisis directly, while Trump’s approach seems more vague and focused on suburbs. Renters need clear solutions, not just talk.
Still waiting for Bloomberg backed London Breed to sign the Realpage ban in San Francisco that’s been waiting for her signature for like a month now. I get that she doesn’t want to give Peskin a win in the mayoral race but he’s polling in the single digits.
Trump is literally a real estate mogul who, at one point, was illegally discriminating against renting to minorities.
Why in hell would he be better at housing? His literal business is about screwing the little guy to make sure the rich get richer.
Maybe they’re not aware of the tremendous benefits to be found by selling off all of our federal lands to
real-estate developers.
Because, let’s be clear here, Trump and Vance don’t give a damn about renters.
Trump is obviously not going to lift a finger to help people with housing, that’s a given and he shouldn’t even be in the conversation.
But I’m honestly disappointed that Harris and Walz are basically saying the only way out of housing crisis is more Reagan style supply side economics (here come the downvotes). Americans have decades that show that this does not work for something so essential as putting your roof over your head, especially when there is rampant crony capitalism involved.
Americans need mass regulations for housing, for example:
– elimination of junk fees and forced services that you can’t opt out of like trash valet services and mail delivery services in rental properties
– elimination of collusion and anti trust violations amongst landlords and developers
– eliminating “build to rent” single family home communities
– severely limiting corporate ownership of housing, for both foreign and domestic companies so that citizens can own more of the supply rather than holdings companies
These seem like no brainer regulations, and they are barely even on the radar. But of course it impacts Wall Street profits so thus the corporate owned media will use its propaganda machine to convince people that all regulations are bad.
Trump hates renters. He thinks they are poor for not being able to buy houses.
Trump and Vance give off the vibe that they would buy my apartment complex and raise rent by 80% while firing most of the maintenance team, landscapers, and never fix the pool or gate.
And some don’t?
As someone who is voting Harris/Walz, but also works in mortgage, I’m extremely curious how this whole $25k first-time homebuyer thing will work, & also how the 3 million new units will work. Very little has been laid out in terms of specifics.
This industry is packed to the gills with crafty people without cumbersome morals & a huge appetite for money. I don’t want to see this go the way of California’s homelessness efforts, with billions of dollars flushed 1) into connected pockets 2) down the drain.
Since this appears to be one of her primary policy promises, it would be nice to open the conversation about the nuts & bolts of how this actually happens in a way that it isn’t abused.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://fortune.com/2024/10/02/renters-harris-trump-housing-survey/) reduced by 84%. (I’m a bot)
*****
> Close to half of renters think Vice President Kamala Harris would be better for making housing more affordable and almost a third think former President Donald Trump would be better, according to a Redfin-commissioned survey.
> He found homeowners are twice as likely to identify themselves as strongly Republican than renters, and renters far more often identify themselves as strongly Democrat.
> Half of all renter households were considered cost-burdened in 2022, totalling 22.4 million renters, the highest on record, a report from Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies recently found.
*****
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Adding people through immigration can only act to increase rent and mortgage prices when they enter those markets. I’m sure that landlords would be happy with it because any kind of price fixing won’t work.
Supply and demand is such a simple concept.
We need nationwide rent control. This price fixing software is killing us.
Most renters would vote for the candidates who are more like their friendly neighbors, instead of the candidates who remind them of their scummy landlord.
Well yeah, she told me she wants to subsidize my first home purchase. I can’t imagine it’ll help the cost of housing making it easier to secure the loans, though. Then again once I’m a homeowner I actually want prices to go up.
Does anybody have a fucking clue what trumps plans are for housing?
Really? “Build millions of new houses, and oh permitting reform to speed this up” beat out “DEPORT THE DIRTY ILLEGALS”?
Shocker.
Weird how people are convinced by an actual plan and not just ‘we”ll sell government land!’
Obviously. The rambling moron thinks the answer is to deport 15% of our construction workers.
25k For first time home buyers would be huge for a lot of people.
I do worry the cost of a home will go up because of it, but at the same time… what’s the other side proposing? We’ll tariff so hard everyone will get free housing?
How does she do with renters outside of urban centers though?
Not so sure giving people 25k for a down payment is smart. I think a civilian version of the VA backed home loan might be a better approach.
Duh!
She might not do much, but I’ll take not much over not a goddamn thing which is what you’d get with trump
Some folks seem to think Harris’s plan is just to provide a subsidy for first time homebuyers. It’s more than that.
There is also a supply side component, as well as a regulatory component to address the issue with corporate landlords.
Here’s a copy of Harris’s plans on housing, from [https://mailchi.mp/press.kamalaharris.com/vice-president-harris-lays-out-agenda-to-lower-costs-for-american-families](https://mailchi.mp/press.kamalaharris.com/vice-president-harris-lays-out-agenda-to-lower-costs-for-american-families:).