You know that old election cycle saying about the most important issue to American

voters every time?

It's the economy, stupid.

That one.

Well this time around, the axiom deserves a little refinement because in 2024 it's two things it's the

inflation and it's the housing stupid in fact back in May a Gallup poll found that the high cost of housing was the most important

issue on American voters' minds, second only to inflation.

A more recent poll from the Liberal Center for Popular Democracy found

that 84% of swing state voters say the cost of housing is a big problem in their state.

And that's brought on a rather unusual flurry of presidential nominee policy bravado,

which could be cynically called the illusion of a solution to the housing cost crunch.

A couple of weeks ago, former President Donald Trump

pulled this rabbit out of a hat.

Well, we want to have land so we can have housing built in certain areas like this area.

They don't have the housing.

And we have so much land and we want to put it to you.

So we're going to have land released and on that land we're going to have housing built.

Trump is referring to his proposal to open up federal land to build what he's called 10 new freedom cities.

For now, let's call it more of a concept of a plan because so far

no details on how that would be accomplished or funded. Now a modern day homesteading

movement actually has surprising bipartisan appeal.

Vice President Kamala Harris also proposes repurposing some federal lands to build affordable housing.

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