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In a seeming reversal from his recent promises about increasing
affordability, President Donald Trump said during a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, Jan. 29, that his goal is to keep housing prices up to avoid inadvertently benefiting Americans who "didn't work very hard."

"People that own their homes, we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna
keep those prices up," he said. "We're not gonna destroy the value of
their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home."

Stepping back a bit, he added, "We're gonna make it easier to buy, we're
gonna get interest rates down, but I wanna protect the people that, for
the first time in their lives, feel good about themselves. They feel
like, you know, that they're wealthy people."

Trump then circled back to his plan to increase housing costs: "There's
so much talk about, 'Oh, we're gonna drive housing prices down.' I don't
wanna drive housing prices down, I wanna drive housing prices up for
people that own their homes, and they can be assured that's what's gonna happen."

The president's latest plan comes just weeks after he announced his
intention to make housing more affordable, including backing an
initiative to ban corporations from being able to purchase single-family homes.

"For a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the
pinnacle of the American Dream. It was the reward for working hard, and
doing the right thing, but now, because of the Record High Inflation
caused by Joe Biden and the Democrats in Congress, that American Dream
is increasingly out of reach for far too many people, especially younger Americans," he wrote on Truth Social on Jan. 7.

"It is for that reason, and much more, that I am immediately taking
steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more
single-family homes, and I will be calling on Congress to codify it.
People live in homes, not corporations," he continued.

https://people.com/trump-keep-home-prices-high-11895352

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