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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTACO plan next year to "announce some of the most aggressive housing reform plans in American history."
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/17/us/trump-address-nation-speechDec. 17, 2025, 9:32 p.m. ET1 hour ago
Tony RommEconomic policy reporter
One thing that might have been easily missed in that speech: The president said he planned next year to announce some of the most aggressive housing reform plans in American history.
Katie Rogers
Dec. 17, 2025, 9:27 p.m. ET1 hour ago
Katie RogersWhite House reporter
You know, FEMA camps.
Klarkashton
(4,727 posts)And turn them into rentals.
chicoescuela
(2,644 posts)dweller
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marble falls
(71,085 posts)... homes and apartments, the same thing that several members of Jared Kushner had happen to them?
You bet!!
The Madcap
(1,750 posts)Newspaper blankets? Barbed wire barriers with watchtowers?
Bluetus
(2,296 posts)that housing plan will be ready in 2 weeks. Count on it.
lastlib
(27,548 posts)Yup, two weeks....
Bluetus
(2,296 posts)Oneironaut
(6,212 posts)All so shitty data centers can boost the current AI grift stocks, and, so obnoxious, HOA-filled, Lilly-White McMansion suburb spam can spread like a malicious growth throughout the beautiful lands that will become a distant memory.
Nothing is sacred. Destroy all that is beautiful. The line must go up endlessly.
Irish_Dem
(79,809 posts)The wrecking ball will be put to use again.
LS0999
(278 posts)Only whites can buy houses and everyone else gets deported or sent to prison camps? I truly hate this piece of s*** and every single person who still supports them..
yaesu
(8,993 posts)lastlib
(27,548 posts)He's gonna bring 'em down 500 percent, like he did prescription drugs!
Get your facts straight, man!
Trueblue1968
(19,078 posts)UTUSN
(76,936 posts)tinrobot
(11,951 posts)Blue Full Moon
(3,160 posts)BH liberal
(121 posts)sees trouble ahead for the housing market. I plan on cutting my latest project short (remodeling an existing home and extra lot to build on) and selling while I can still get a good price. Looks like we are heading toward at least an event similar to the 2008 Bush Crash and Great Recession. The properties I held then lost a significant percent of their value and I certainly do not want a repeat of that scenario. l had to hold onto that build and land until the market finally recovered. It could get ugly in 2026.
marble falls
(71,085 posts)... the $2K/month rentals have fallen to $1.2K per month. Where there were very few older houses for sale there's one or two on almost every street.
If I were in your shoes I think I'd try renting my properties Or find quick cash offers. I think you're right: there's going to be a big shake out.
I wonder if TACO thinks he is going to shock the REIT to open up the estimated seven million unoccupied units of housing they hold in reserve to keep prices up.
BH liberal
(121 posts)is that now we can no longer rely on accurate economic information from this outlaw administration. As well as accurate info on most everything else, including healthcare, jobs, et al. Real estate brokers and agents are chronically optimistic in order to keep buyers and sellers coming, so no real help there in making sound decisions.
marble falls
(71,085 posts)... open honesty has always worked and that's what's needed. However honesty is not only their weak suit, it doesn't even show up in the hands they play.