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Democrats Have a Big Strategy to Address One of the Country’s Worst Problems. Will It Work?

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Julian Zelizer : Democrats are running a national campaign with a focus on building more housing.

He says for the first time in memory, Democrats have a national focus on social housing.

Zelizer says it's no longer a controversial proposition to say that we need more housing, it's urgent, and urgent.

The Center for American Progress proposes a $150 billion investment in “new social housing’s” policy.

Some critics say Washington should be more aggressive, because grant programs like ARPA or PRO Housing will only go to jurisdictions that want housing in the first place.

Some evidence suggests that real housing reform moves in silence, like garden gnomes.

It sounds like a Bundy Family project, but in fact the feds are sitting on prime underused land in many cities, including office buildings, post offices, and Amtrak property. The problem, as with many such projects, is getting its owners to give it up..

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