Michael Gold
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875 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6 Jul
Michael Gold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Most notably, this bill would ease a number of federal regulations, things like environmental reviews, changing the rules for what's known as manufactured housing, which is cheaper to build than building a house in a lot starting from scratch.
These are the factory-built houses that get constructed off-site, brought in, and suddenly you have a home.
Exactly.
Yeah.
They decide to change some regulations to make it cheaper to build those kinds of homes.
They also change some grant programs.
They want to make it easier to refurbish old aging properties.
They want to make it easier for, you know, municipalities to turn maybe a vacant factory into housing, things like that.
And they offer a lot of economic incentives, whether through grants or other programs, so that local governments would be encouraged to support new construction, maybe change some zoning rules.
And on the consumer side, they make it easier for some consumers to get mortgages in the hopes this will help them be able to buy lower-cost homes.
That's right.
But there's also one more provision in here that Congress puts in, which is designed to address the president.
So around the time the details of this bill are getting worked out at the beginning of the year, President Trump starts to talk about housing a bit more.
He seems to realize that with the midterms coming up... We want people to be able to buy a home.
He needs to demonstrate that he's worried about this issue, which is so crucial for many Americans.
And he tells Congress that he wants to see a limit on the ability of big Wall Street investors to buy single-family homes that he thinks should be going toward American people.
And this is kind of a populist idea, but at its heart is the idea that homes for people to live in should be bought by people, they should be available to people.
And there's concerns that having a lot of deep-pocketed investors come in and buy homes is actually reducing the supply for American people.
Mm-hmm.
And so the president signals that he thinks this is really important.
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