Yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[December 30, 2024]
The federal government needs to get out of the way. Overregulation and red tape are choking housing supply.
Local leaders must streamline permits and promote affordable housing. Investing in trades like carpentry can make homebuilding more affordable and attainable.
[….]

There was much hilarity in the responses:

Republican congressmen should stay out of business, period! You haven’t accomplished anything in 2 years !!

Yes, he did. He became Trump’s lap dog.

So how do you address the corporate investors that account for overbuilt houses, combined with commercial profit interests, both corporate and private through rentals and Air BnBs? These factors are what have visibly reduced housing supplies for first time buyers, as well as drastically increased housing prices.

Vice President Harris wanted to help 1st time home owners, with tax deductions, and building new affordable homes.

Rep mark Brownthumb backs using cheap H1B immigrant labor, taking jobs from American citizens.

mark hasn’t spoken up, so he has to be in agreement that Americans are not smart enough to do the job.

If only Congress would do its job…
Mark’s propaganda machine is on full today.

he is on tv again. It’s all the idiot can do.

It’s the only job he knows, playing to the camera. He is woefully unqualified for any sort of government job, and he proves that with every video he posts.

There are plenty of houses being built for the affluent. That’s not the crisis #LiarMark

not everybody can live in Winnebago like our elite congressman

Former President Jimmy Carter practiced his belief in HOUSING for every American by actually BUILDING HOUSES himself, with Habitat for Humanity.
Can you even imagine Trump doing that selfless act???

carter’s work for habitat for humanity is irrelevant and completely insignificant.

“….His humanitarian work with organizations like Habitat for Humanity, where he personally helped build homes for families in need, brought hope and shelter to countless Americans….” – Mark Alford (r), December 29, 2024

i call bs. Alford and party never supported any initiatives for home builders at Local, State and Federal levels. Nor will Alford and Party EVER show empathy to building homes for the needy as Carter did with Homes for Humanity. Has Alford’s son ever volunteer to build homes for needy? Just calling it as I see it as Constituent of Alford’s.

People EXIT the cities for the country to escape the CRIME !!!

Crime is DOWN in cities

Here in your district the big issue is that corporate groups that buy up houses and then charge excessive rent. Fewer houses on the market drives up prices for people wanting to buy houses. I’m not sure what regulations are driving up prices.

Name one regulation that the Biden Administration implemented that increases home prices.

Trump’s policies are to deport 1/4 to 1/3 of the construction workers in America.
That will make houses even more expensive.

A study published in March by Troup Howard, a professor of finance at the University of Utah, and researchers Mengqi Wang and Dayin Zhang of the University of Wisconsin, looked at what happened between 2008 and 2013 when a federal program deported 300,000 undocumented immigrants.
Because the deportation campaign rolled out in different places across the country at different times, the researchers could examine what happened to home prices in counties that had deportations versus those that didn’t.
It turned out that many of the people who got deported were working in the home building industry. When undocumented immigrants left, there weren’t enough workers to take their place. As a result, the industry, and in turn homebuyers, paid the price.
Three years after the deportations, the average county had built 1,997 fewer homes, the equivalent of losing an entire year’s worth of homebuilding, the study found. The researchers found that new construction parcels were $57,300 more expensive than they otherwise would have been, an increase of 17%.

[….] “US housing markets have faced a secular shortage of housing supply in the past decade, contributing to a steady decline in housing affordability. Most supply-side explanations in the literature have tended to focus on the distortionary effect of local housing regulations. This paper provides novel evidence on the interplay between residential construction, labor supplied to the construction industry, and immigration policy. We exploit the staggered rollout of a national increase in immigration enforcement to identify negative shocks to construction sector employment that are likely unrelated to local housing market conditions. Treated counties experience large and persistent reductions in construction workforce, residential homebuilding, and increases in home prices. Further, evidence suggests that undocumented labor is a complement to domestic labor: an indirect outcome of deporting undocumented construction workers is net job loss for US-born workers, especially in higher-skilled occupations. We find that any demand-side downward pressure on home prices linked to increased deportations is temporary and quickly dominated by the supply-side impact.” [….]

Or, corporations and extremely wealthy folks are buying up all the housing so they can charge folks way too much. But of course, that doesn’t serve your self interest of getting your pockets lined by super wealthy donors, huh?

Republicans don’t solve problems….they either create them, or whine about them.

Alford can’t do anything but tv. Full scale embarrassment.

LMAO! No, corporations are buying residential properties, causing shortages and price increases….keep licking that boot, Mark, you worthless POS.

Traitor Trump wants to deport millions of construction workers….that should lower prices….damn, you really are a dipshit.

bullshit