Donald Trump has discovered a new word…”the affordability,” as he puts it. Unfortunately, it isn’t just another buzzword for social media posts. Affordability is very real, urgent, and worsening problem for Americans. In the pyramid of the American dream, home ownership is at the very top. It’s the clearest path to generational wealth. But, as Ali Velshi warns, that pyramid has crumbled in the wake of runaway costs for food and nearly everything else, a rogue Wall Street, and a distorted housing market that has priced working families out of the American dream.

Trump proposed a 50 year mortgage as a solution to the housing affordability crisis. That’s right, a half century home loan where the average first-time buyer will be making payments into their 90s. On a median priced home, the

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