President Joe Biden is back in Nevada this week, and he’s talking about affordable housing – again. It’s high on the minds of voters, crucially in swing states like this one and next door in Arizona. Mr.
Biden won both states in 2020; now they’re leaning toward former President Donald Trump. Housing is a tricky one for presidents. Local officials tend to have much more sway than Washington does.
And often, Congress needs to approve – as with a rent cap that the president has proposed. At the same time, affordable housing has been dubbed a “ sleeper issue ” in the presidential election. But that’s only if you haven’t been talking to voters, says David Byler, chief of research at the polling firm Noble Predictive Insights in Phoenix.
“Housing affordability is a huge issue in Nevada – and it’s a huge issue across the nation.” Housing isn’t politically divisive in the way that other issues can be – like abortion or guns. But while everyone may in theory agree that housing should be more widely accessible, there are sharply different ideas about the best policies to achieve this.
And none of them are cost-free. President Joe Biden is back in Nevada this week, and he’s talking about affordable housing – again. It’s high on the minds of voters, crucially in swing states like this one and next door in Arizona.
Mr. Biden won both states in 2020; now they’re tilting toward former President Donald Trump. “We’re going to make sure you own more an.
