It's the Brian Laira show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone.

For the first hour of our show today, we will re-air the National Call-In Election Special

that we did last night in partnership with the

public radio program marketplace in our series America, Are We Ready? It was America, are we ready to

make housing more affordable? Then we'll do a live hour of the show at 11 o'clock.

From WNYC in New York and Marketplace from American Public Media.

This is America. Are we ready?

Hello, everyone. I'm Brian Lehrer from WNYC.

And I'm Kimberly Adams, Senior Washington correspondent from Marketplace. Once again tonight, we're teaming up to help answer maybe the number one question on the minds of so many swing voters this year. Are we ready for what the outcome of this election will mean for our economy?

Last week, we asked America, are we ready to do something about the cost of health care,

comparing Trump and Harris and their parties in Congress on that?

Our topic tonight is housing costs.

For so many Americans, it's the number one challenge to affording our lives.

Right.

For many Americans, it's the increase in cost of rent in many parts of the country,

as there's a documented shortage of rental buildings compared to demand.

And on home ownership, there's the generational challenge of today's young adults struggling to buy a first home like their parents or grandparents did

because incomes and prices do not match up as well as in the past.

So we'll invite your stories on the phones on what you'd like to see the government do about

the cost of housing and we'll compare what Vice President Harris, former President Trump,

and their parties in Congress say they'll do about it. We're so happy to have on our guests on this to help explain

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