Trump abruptly cancels plan to sign bipartisan bill aimed at lowering cost of housing unless Senate approves Save America Act
In a statement on social media, Trump said: “Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency.”
A day earlier, the House of Representatives approved the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, which is intended to lower rents and home prices by reducing federal regulations, streamlining environmental reviews, speeding up the construction process and curbing the influence of corporate landlords by limiting their ability to purchase single-family homes.
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I mean he rapes children, there's literally nothing he can do as far as signing or not signing bills that would really move the needle on him being a dangerous individual who should be locked up in a cage.
Coffee isn't ready yet, so I'm basing this entirely on the blurb:
That sounds bad.
That definitely sounds worse.
More bad.
That last one sounds like it's a good thing, until you take a second to consider the source. Most likely it aids his buddies somehow.
Do we really want this signed?
The last one isn't as impactful as it sounds. "Corporate" landlords are anyone with more than 10 properties. Something like 60% of the market is Mom-and-Pop landlords that only own five or six houses.
We need crippling progressive taxes for each residence owned beyond your primary.
Environmental “concerns” are used by NIMBYs to jam-up urban infill housing at the permitting stage.
I’m sorry for the weeds and rats in empty lots, but better to have urban housing than suburban sprawl.
I noticed those things too, with that last one being the only thing half way decent. You're right about the buddy thing too. He's holding it over people's head for some reason though.
People have so many BAD takes on this housing bill.
Read a little, please, of it directly. Not a news breakdown. If you have questions, google them, and get info for yourself. There's a provision for simplifying the inspection critetia so more programs can be passed at once in affordable housing, which is a current impactful bottleneck. There's a provision about spend - that this change isn't to pay out anyone.
This is a huge win and it better not get veto'd.
"I will starve the citizenry unless you help me to make my rich friends even richer!". What a maroon...
Doesn't it automatically sign if he does nothing after a few days?
Unless he vetos or congress goes to recess. This mfers better go to work
Unless he vetoes it. And he is just a kind of petty motherfucker who would veto such a thing just cause he didn't get his way.
Thing is, I'm not sure he's smart enough to veto it instead of just refusing to sign
He doesn't have to be. He's got a bunch of dipshit sycophants around him that will definitely remind him. Especially since Republicans want that bill passed more than anything. Since it's their jobs that are on the line come this November.
Yeah but they're also lazy dipshits.
The piece of shit dictator acting like a piece of shit dictator? Who would have thought?
That's because he's a petulant little shit.
Objection! He's a huge piece of shit.
How should this been seen as anything less than holding the possibility of owning a house hostage. Great for your country, Mr. President. Choke on sepsis or some lead poisoning and be forgotten as the wretched thing you are.
Your take is the only one AFAIK, he's never been about America first, only Oligarchy first.
Trade voting rights for lower rent?
Trade actual voting rights for the promise of potentially maybe a slight chance of lower rent, that they dont really want to happen.
Hm, makes me wonder if that was the plan all along. I've heard nothing but good things about the housing act, which is decidedly uncharacteristic of our current government. Perhaps it is the hook they planned to use to get the voter suppression act to finally pass.
The main thing i read was it will make fire coding easier which i don't think is really a great idea.
Don't want houses burning down
Could also be that they're trying to undermine Trump so nobody's upset when they remove him from office.
fuck him. that is the republican way to lower prices but fucking he environment for no change in prices for the common man. It will make cost lower for builders but buyers won't see it.
Of course, the loss of power by one pales in comparison to the needs of all. Spoken like a grade A narcissist.
The only thing in that bill that will help is restricting corporate landlords