Nick Fountain

Like shipping off to Djibouti to get that tax-free pay.

He fought for that.

Sounds about right?

Shipping off to Djibouti to afford a down payment for a house sounds about right?

That makes sense.

Yeah, it makes sense.

If you look at the median age of first-time homebuyers these days, it's at an all-time high.

40 years old.

James' age.

In the early 90s, it was 28 years old.

Yes.

In fact, yesterday, Trump said he, quote, wants to drive housing prices up for people that own their homes.

Still, a White House spokesperson told us that the president is committed to exploring every tool possible to improve housing affordability.

Yeah, it has to do with a premise that you have likely heard.

That big Wall Street investors are buying up single-family homes and those deep-pocketed investors are impossible to compete with.

Of all the popular ideas out there on why housing prices are so high, this is a big one.

In the world of politics, it's been mostly a thing you've heard from politicians on the left, though.

So we wanted to find out, will this policy help people like James when he gets back from Djibouti this summer?

Do you think the room is going to be more full given recent news?

Caitlin started looking into this subject when she got her first professor job at UT Austin.