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Ken McElroy Show

What Politicians Won’t Tell You About Affordable Housing

Ken McElroy Show

Ken McElroy

Business, Investing, Education, Business News, News

4.8692 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Ken and Danille explain why well-meaning housing policies—like rent control and government-built public housing—often backfire, worsening affordability and driving out investment. They share real-world examples and propose smarter solutions that actually increase supply and benefit both renters and communities.

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1:26.5

What if I told you the very housing policies that are supposed to help the middle class actually make the situation worse?

1:34.3

From rent control to Mandami-style solutions, we're going to dive into what is happening right now.

1:41.3

Hot topic.

1:42.3

Yep.

1:43.3

Big hot topic.

1:44.6

Like where you invest and who's running the offices at the mayor, the governor, all that stuff is a big, big deal now,

1:54.1

especially moving forward, guys.

1:55.4

But I also want to chat about it because, you know, Mamdani's solutions sound great on paper,

2:02.1

but we're going to really dive into the data. This stuff has been tried before and really go into, you know, why there's the

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