Pro-Trump group unleashes blueprint for crucial housing initiative featuring top MAGA influencer
FIRST ON FOX: A new initiative to "Make Housing Great Again" led by conservative influencer Benny Johnson and the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) has a plan on how to...
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FIRST ON FOX: A new initiative to "Make Housing Great Again" led by conservative influencer Benny Johnson and the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) has a plan on how to make housing more affordable for Americans. In November, conservative influencer Benny Johnson and AFPI announced a new ‘Make Housing Great Again’ initiative, which has also tapped former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson and developer Michael Burkentine to help advise. Johnson brings a massive following to the initiative and also has a stake in the matter himself, considering he is a young father, AFPI pointed out when asked to explain the decision to select Johnson as the initiative's co-chair and national spokesperson. This week, the initiative unveiled a list of concrete policy goals it will pursue, which it believes will make the American Dream of owning a home more attainable for all. "Housing affordability has reached a crisis point in America, with a 167% increase in home prices in the past half-century. The result of more expensive homes is the delay of a significant life milestone: homeownership," the MAGA housing initiative's policy white paper points out. "The America First vision of housing affordability is to restore the American Dream to what it once was. By taking a pragmatic and targeted approach to the affordability crisis these proposals will increase the housing supply, provide direct relief to home buyers, bring prices down, and, ultimately, allow all Americans to obtain the cornerstone of the American Dream: a place to call their own." TRUMP OPENS DOOR TO LIZ WARREN ON CREDIT CARD RATES AS GOP WEIGHS AFFORDABILITY FIGHT Incentivizing deregulation at the local level via market-driven solutions, efforts to reduce construction costs, the implementation of tax benefits for first-time home buyers, expanding economic "opportunity zones," and reducing foreign housing demand are among several of the concrete policy goals the new MAGA housing initiative said i…