‘Make Our Skies Safe Again’: Trump Picks Former Insurance And Housing Chair As Transportation Secretary
President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday that he will nominate Fox Business host and former Republican Wisconsin congressman Sean Duffy to be U.S. secretary of transportation. Duffy is a Fox News contributor and co-host of Fox Business' “The Bottom Line.” provided He served in the House of Representatives for nine years before moving into media. President […]
Proponents of Adams’ controversial ‘City of Yes’ housing plan rally outside City Hall
Supporters of Mayor Eric Adams' controversial “City of Yes” housing plan rallied outside City Hall on Monday ahead of a series of key council votes that will decide the city's fate. The rally, which drew about 200 people, was part of a final media blitz to drum up public support for the proposal, which would […]
We Didn’t Properly Address Housing, Border Policies
On Friday's MSNBC “Morning Joe” broadcast, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Delaware) said most Senate Democrats do not believe the “core accomplishments” of the Biden-Harris administration are the wrong policies. However, “there were some important policies.'' Issues that were not addressed quickly enough or sufficiently. One of them was housing and the other was border security. ” […]
Labour Gov’t Attacking Farmers to Take Land for Migrant Housing
The left-wing Labor government's plan to impose inheritance tax on British farmers is nothing more than a class war ploy to free up land to build homes for immigrants, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has claimed. . Like many family farms, Chancellor Keir Starmer's government's plans to impose a 20 per cent tax on inherited […]
Beshear: Dems can win by focusing on 'core issues' like jobs, housing, health care
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) on Tuesday laid out a framework for Democrats to regain the trust of the American people after election results gave Republicans control of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives. “While I am deeply disappointed in the national results, I refuse to play the blame game,” Beshear […]
Leading UK estate agent cuts its longer-term house price growth forecast | Housing market
Leading real estate agents have cut their long-term house price growth forecasts, amid expectations that UK interest rates could remain high for an extended period of time and the Budget's measures to boost incomes. The revised forecast for the Hamptons comes days after Halifax Bank and Nationwide Bank announced that the annual rate of growth […]
America’s housing crisis needs real answers, not Biden’s scapegoating
The economic law of supply and demand states that when the supply of a good or service exceeds demand, the price will fall. Most politicians understand this and typically invoke their laws in response to public complaints about high consumer costs. But when it comes to housing, leading Democrats are paying lip service to supply […]
Mass deportations and affordable housing, Zillow CEO says there’s a link
The CEO of real estate app Zillow was pressured to say in an interview with CNBC whether mass deportations would improve the U.S. housing affordability crisis. Jeremy Waxman was talking about the company's earnings call on his show “Squawk on the Streets” when he was asked about President-elect Donald Trump's plans for mass deportations. “The […]
New council housing in England may be removed from right to buy scheme | Social housing
Angela Reiner has suggested ministers could prevent England's new parliament building from being sold under the Right to Buy scheme. The Deputy Prime Minister said the government would introduce restrictions on new social housing “so we don't lose stock”. Since Margaret Thatcher launched the scheme in 1980, the Right to Buy scheme has enabled tenants […]
House Judiciary subpoenas Biden-Harris HHS on illegal immigrant housing costs
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has subpoenaed the Biden-Harris administration over the federal government's spending at taxpayer expense to house illegal immigrants. In Tuesday's letter, Jordan complained about the Biden-Harris administration's “enforcement of federal immigration laws and implementation of policies that prioritize illegal aliens and refugees over U.S. citizens and other legal residents” […]