In a statement on social media, Trump said: “Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency.”
A day earlier, the House of Representatives approved the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, which is intended to lower rents and home prices by reducing federal regulations, streamlining environmental reviews, speeding up the construction process and curbing the influence of corporate landlords by limiting their ability to purchase single-family homes.
The piece of shit dictator acting like a piece of shit dictator? Who would have thought?
Coffee isn’t ready yet, so I’m basing this entirely on the blurb:
A day earlier, the House of Representatives approved the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, which is intended to lower rents and home prices by reducing federal regulations,
That sounds bad.
streamlining environmental reviews,
That definitely sounds worse.
speeding up the construction process
More bad.
and curbing the influence of corporate landlords by limiting their ability to purchase single-family homes.
That last one sounds like it’s a good thing, until you take a second to consider the source. Most likely it aids his buddies somehow.
Do we really want this signed?
The last one isn’t as impactful as it sounds. “Corporate” landlords are anyone with more than 10 properties. Something like 60% of the market is Mom-and-Pop landlords that only own five or six houses.
We need crippling progressive taxes for each residence owned beyond your primary.
Environmental “concerns” are used by NIMBYs to jam-up urban infill housing at the permitting stage.
I’m sorry for the weeds and rats in empty lots, but better to have urban housing than suburban sprawl.
I noticed those things too, with that last one being the only thing half way decent. You’re right about the buddy thing too. He’s holding it over people’s head for some reason though.
Trade voting rights for lower rent?
Trade actual voting rights for the promise of potentially maybe a slight chance of lower rent, that they dont really want to happen.
Hm, makes me wonder if that was the plan all along. I’ve heard nothing but good things about the housing act, which is decidedly uncharacteristic of our current government. Perhaps it is the hook they planned to use to get the voter suppression act to finally pass.
The main thing i read was it will make fire coding easier which i don’t think is really a great idea.
Don’t want houses burning down
Some fire coding stuff is just beyond stupid. Like the part that requires access to two fire exits - all it does is guarantee that all apartment buildings will be long thin buildings with apartments all exiting into a long double-sided corridor with a staircase at each end (because that’s the geometrically most space-efficient way of meeting that requirement). And those corridors suck. They suck out a ton of space from the building, they suck the energy from your body as you walk through a big miserable unsafe-feeling (because it’s literally all doors in every direction) windowless liminal space of a corridor (seriously, it feels like you’re walking through The Matrix and not in a good way), they suck away neighbourliness (because nobody wants to have a conversation in the hallway, because it’s the least private-feeling place ever, and it’s also miserable for the above reasons), and they suck out family (I.e. 4bedroom) apartments (because they’re hard to fit into the long-thin buildings that the double-doored corridor forces).
Could also be that they’re trying to undermine Trump so nobody’s upset when they remove him from office.
I mean he rapes children, there’s literally nothing he can do as far as signing or not signing bills that would really move the needle on him being a dangerous individual who should be locked up in a cage.
How should this been seen as anything less than holding the possibility of owning a house hostage. Great for your country, Mr. President. Choke on sepsis or some lead poisoning and be forgotten as the wretched thing you are.
Your take is the only one AFAIK, he’s never been about America first, only Oligarchy first.
Doesn’t it automatically sign if he does nothing after a few days?
Unless he vetoes it. And he is just a kind of petty motherfucker who would veto such a thing just cause he didn’t get his way.
Vetoing it doesn’t matter, it has bipartisan support and they can just re-vote it (and he can’t veto it twice IIRC). And while yes, Trump can be patient and petty, so can the senate.
Thing is, I’m not sure he’s smart enough to veto it instead of just refusing to sign
He doesn’t have to be. He’s got a bunch of dipshit sycophants around him that will definitely remind him. Especially since Republicans want that bill passed more than anything. Since it’s their jobs that are on the line come this November.
Yeah but they’re also lazy dipshits.
Unless he vetos or congress goes to recess. This mfers better go to work
TRAITOR
That’s because he’s a petulant little shit.
Objection! He’s a huge piece of shit.
“I will starve the citizenry unless you help me to make my rich friends even richer!”. What a maroon…
fuck him. that is the republican way to lower prices but fucking he environment for no change in prices for the common man. It will make cost lower for builders but buyers won’t see it.
People have so many BAD takes on this housing bill.
Read a little, please, of it directly. Not a news breakdown. If you have questions, google them, and get info for yourself. There’s a provision for simplifying the inspection critetia so more programs can be passed at once in affordable housing, which is a current impactful bottleneck. There’s a provision about spend - that this change isn’t to pay out anyone.
This is a huge win and it better not get veto’d.
Of course, the loss of power by one pales in comparison to the needs of all. Spoken like a grade A narcissist.
The only thing in that bill that will help is restricting corporate landlords
