Letters to the Editor: Trump campaigned on affordability. How’s that going now?

To the editor: The article written by Gavin J. Quinton factors out that now we have a housing scarcity and elevated housing prices (“Housing prices are crippling many Individuals. Right here’s how the 2 events suggest to repair that,” Jan. 26). Per the polls cited, the vast majority of Individuals disapprove and are sad with the way in which President Trump is dealing with the financial system, and he now says that affordability is a hoax. That’s even if he championed affordability at his rallies in 2024, which helped get him elected. Costs are up in homebuying, lease, groceries and healthcare. Wages should not maintaining with inflation, however Trump has an idea of a plan.

So as to add gasoline to the hearth, Trump is concentrating on blue states and threatening to revoke federal funding primarily based on child-care and immigration insurance policies. We presently have a labor scarcity within the building enterprise, and his immigration insurance policies are making it more durable for house builders to fulfill the demand.

Trump’s priorities have to shift from appeasing his billionaire buddies with tax cuts, and as an alternative deal with the vast majority of Individuals who need assistance. As Invoice Clinton famously said, “It’s the financial system, silly.”

Anastacio Vigil, Santa Monica