The affordability president on housing

Or you could skip the pretext!

Another huge win for the critical voters who voted for Trump because Biden made things too exponsive:

So I realize there are certainly local politicians who have this aim in practice, but has there ever been a political figure at the national level who openly declared their desire to make homeownership more expensive and unattainable?

[image or embed]— Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social) Jan 29, 2026 at 11:48 AM

As Julian says, “the only imperative of housing policy is to protect the property values of incumbent homeowners” is certainly the de facto position of way to many public officials of both parties, but its very Trump to just be this explicit about it.