Susan Wachter
👤 Speaker
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Planet Money
Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
It's a small decrease in rates.
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Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
We already saw an impact.
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Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
It already makes them laugh.
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Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
It already makes them laugh.
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Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
Only they're not laughing.
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Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
I mean Greenland, right?
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Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
That spikes mortgage rates right there.
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Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
The downside is that Fannie and Freddie, and they're now owned by the government, so us, the taxpayers, are taking on an additional interest rate risk
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Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
Both of these are demand side.
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Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
We need to solve the supply side part of this equation.
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Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
We need to build more homes.
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Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
That's absolutely correct.
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Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
Recognizing that's important.
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Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
So what we don't want, we don't want to tank the housing market, bringing down the wealth of folks who are counting on their home for retirement or maybe to fund their children's education.