Affordable Housing Is Required to Reclaim American Cities

As we look to crafting a set of policies that serve the American nation, one of the most important and obvious goals of this policy ought to encourage above-replacement fertility within the bounds of monogamous traditional marriages for people who can support and raise the next generation. In order to accomplish this, we must go back to basics: fixing housing, healthcare, education, and transport, the backbone sectors of modern of a First World life. Those who are still unwilling to use the already formidable power of the American federal government to push back on the damage done by generations of hateful subversives can simply get out of the way.

Fortunately, despite not replacing themselves and there husbands for half a century, American women actually wish to have more than enough children if they were able to. This means that this gap between actual and desired fertility, estimated to be close to a full child in most Western nations, can be significantly affected with proper policy.

With specific regard to housing, much to the chagrin of the religiously free market, there appears to be a deficiency in the housing market with regard to its ability to provide affordable housing to the first four quintiles of society, especially those under thirty-five. Not that there is not any room for streamlining erroneous and often corrupt regulations that distort nearly every market in existence, but the near absence of affordable newly-builds across America and the glut of luxury apartments and Mc Mansions in the exurbs tells us that this qualitative gap between demand and supply must now be rectified with robust and competent public policy action.

A commitment from the next America First administration, in addition to dismantling retarded regulations and banning significant capital from participating in the housing market, must be made to directly build MILLIONS of housing units in metro areas with over a million people. This would completely transform the housing markets of the most unaffordable places in the country. For far too long, middle-class families with children, the backbone of American society, have been chased out of the most economically productive spots of this country, leaving our once great cities to Third World hordes who survive off the government teat and the wealthiest of the entire world who care not for the plight of the regular American. Bringing these forgotten Americans back into America’s significant urban areas will revitalize the American nation like nothing we have ever seen.

A direct housing policy such as this can also be used to restructure the priorities of society within the sensible parameter of making what economists call normal profits. An example of this could be generous discounts to the sticker price of a housing unit given to married couples with children. Not only would this make it easier for families to support themselves by living closer to cities with higher wages, but it could also encourage childbearing to take advantage of the cheaper living arrangements.

In addition, differently sized units can be priced disproportionately, where those who are most able and willing to pay for housing also subsidize those with fewer means without softening their drive to make something of themselves. For example, a 2,000-square-foot unit could carry a sticker price of $250k, whereas a 4,000-square-foot unit would be priced at $750k instead of half a million.

Is this technically redistribution? Yes. But will this perversely affect incentives from an America First standpoint? Not at all. And that is what must indeed be considered when crafting public policy sets. Whether something is “capitalist” or “socialist” should not be a concern as long as it serves the interests of the American people. The better question is: Does a given policy contribute to creating a great American people and nation?

Embarking on a massive housing construction spree is well enough. However, an even better solution to our nation's problems is what is called “comprehensive development.” This means developing residential units in tandem with recreational, commercial, and industrial areas, as well as convenient transportation nodes that all work together to produce harmonious and prosperous living spaces for working-class, middle-class, and upper-middle-class American families to flourish. Most tremendous and beautiful European cities have commercial and recreational shops, restaurants, and offices on the bottom floor and housing and apartments on the upper floors. This system allows many more middle to upper-class people to live in cities, creating greater productivity and community within our metropolitan and economic centers.

Commercial and recreational areas within close proximity to residential units create a higher standard of living by giving Americans access to high-quality jobs that they don’t need to commute to in soul-crushing traffic. Most cities don’t allow children and families because decent housing is too expensive for one income. Instead of abandoning our cities to miscreants that roam the streets, America should invest in housing that attracts intelligent middle- to upper-class families. By offering incentives for responsible families to live in these developments, we can restore the charm and appeal of America's great cities

When combined with prudent policies in healthcare, education, and transport, this mixed-use housing estate model can and will be a powerful tool to ensure tens of millions of Millennials and Zoomers do not become lifelong renters and have access to the twenty-first-century manifestation of the American Dream while also rebuilding and rejuvenating America’s once-great cities.

The next part of this four part series will focus on fixing the nation’s comically expensive and ineffective healthcare system.