No conversation about politics this year is complete without affordability.

They have a new word. You know, they always have a hoax. The new word is affordability.

President Trump is called the affordability crisis a hoax, but the data show it really matters.

Jennifer Ludden is an NPR correspondent who talks to Americans who cannot find affordable housing. And the word comes up a lot.

Affordability. Everyone is talking about it now. Everyone is concerned about this. With housing

specifically, there's a record number of people for whom rent or the mortgage is out of whack

with their income. It is unaffordable. Consider this.

It's getting harder to live with less in America.

We hear what it's like covering the people impacted the most by the Trump administration's cuts,

the choices they're forced to make and what it means for all of us.

Yeah. From NPR, I'm Rob Schmidt. It's consider this from NPR.

Jennifer Ludden has reported across many countries and continents.

Now she covers folks who do not have stable housing or food.

For the past year or so, the Trump administration has cut back a range of federal assistance programs.

I started by asking Jennifer how she reported on one of those programs.

So early on, I got a tip, actually.

I think it was the first to report on a program that was completely eliminated.

It had been started under the Biden administration.

It was to upgrade affordable housing, make it energy efficient and climate

resilient. This is part of a historic investment and a bigger picture push. And so like, okay,

but it's this wonky program with acronyms. Like, how do I, how do I make become real? How do you make this interesting?

Yeah. So where are the people being affected by this? And I, I learned through a nonprofit that

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