Listen to Support it, WNYc, good morning everyone.

For the first hour of our show.

It's the Brian Laird 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 increasing 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.

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