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Left behind and bleeding out: Top scholar warns Trump’s damage is permanent
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Trump Is Accelerating a Collapse He Did Not Create
The “Yawn” Is Policy
Donald Trump’s dismissal of affordable-housing legislation as a “yawn” is not merely another vulgar presidential aside. It accurately describes his administration’s governing choice: leave housing to developers chasing the highest returns, impose tariffs that raise construction costs, and offer no coordinated public response as ownership slips beyond the reach of younger and lower-income Americans.
That choice has identifiable beneficiaries. Developers build expensive housing because…
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