Statement from President Joe Biden on New Actions to Lower Housing Costs | The White House

Families deserve housing that’s affordable—it’s part of the American Dream. Rent is too high and buying a home is out of reach for too many working families and young Americans, after decades of failure to build enough homes. I’m determined to turn that around.

Today, I’m sending a clear message to corporate landlords: If you raise rents more than 5% on existing units, you should lose valuable tax breaks. My Administration is also taking action to cut red tape and repurpose public land to build more affordable homes—including thousands of new homes in Nevada—and announcing new grants to build thousands of homes from Las Vegas to Syracuse. And I’m reiterating my call for Congress to pass my plan to build 2 million new homes—to lower housing costs for good, we need to build, build, build.

While the prior administration gave special tax breaks to corporate landlords, I’m working to lower housing costs for families. Republicans in Congress should join Democrats to pass my plan to lower housing costs for Americans who need relief now.

Source: Statement from President Joe Biden on New Actions to Lower Housing Costs | The White House

Se durassimo in eterno | le pagine dei nostri libri

Se durassimo in eterno
Tutto cambierebbe
Dato che siamo mortali
Molto rimane come prima.

Dauerten wir unendlich
So wandelte sich alles
Da wir aber endlich sind
Bleibt vieles beim alten.

Bertolt Brecht, nato Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (1898 -1956), è stato un drammaturgo, poeta e regista teatrale tedesco, tra i più influenti del Novecento.

Source: Se durassimo in eterno | le pagine dei nostri libri

Roll Call Factba.se – Joe Biden – President’s Public Schedule

1:00 PM
Official Schedule
The President receives the President’s Daily Brief
Closed Press
3:00 PM

Official Schedule

The President participates in an interview with BET’s Ed Gordon
Closed Press
4:00 PM

Official Schedule

The President delivers remarks during the 115^th NAACP National Convention
Pre-Credentialed Media
6:45 PM

Official Schedule

The President participates in an economic summit with Rep. Steven Horsford
Out-of-Town Pool 

Source: Roll Call Factba.se – Joe Biden – President’s Public Schedule

Biden housing plan seeks to curb rent increases by penalizing landlords | Biden administration | The Guardian

President Joe Biden wants to curb rent increases by penalizing landlords who hike rents beyond 5% each year, but he needs the help of Congress to put the plan into action.

The Biden administration will announce the idea in Nevada on Tuesday along with a host of other housing-related policies, including an influx of funds to add more housing in Nevada and elsewhere and a plan to use public federal lands for affordable housing near Las Vegas.

The rent control plan for larger landlords with over 50 units would restrict increases to 5% or less, or those landlords who increased at higher rates would lose access to tax breaks. The administration estimated it would apply to 20m units nationwide. It would be in place for two years if Congress approves Biden’s plan, cast as a way to help renters while developers build more housing stock to meet demand and increase affordability.

Source: Biden housing plan seeks to curb rent increases by penalizing landlords | Biden administration | The Guardian

The Hurriedness and Harriedness | From Behind the Pen

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In the hurriedness and harriedness of life, we somehow tend to normalize and rationalize our crazy activities and work schedules along with high-stress levels. Sometimes we equate busyness with productivity and our clear-cut exhaustion makes us think that our ‘busyness,’ not simply being active mind you, is a good and healthy thing. But it’s like an adrenaline rush, and then you find yourself immobilized in an uncontrollable crash landing.

Sometimes the hurriedness and harriedness of others spill over onto our plates, burdening us with their tribulations, and making us think we are helping them when ‘we’ are really hurting ourselves. This is not to say we shouldn’t help others with a heavy burden, because we should exude the type of humanity to help shift the weight that could cause an overturn on the balance beam of life. Yet, we have to be careful about absorbing the impact of heavy loads of others that can take us out and leave us sidelined with permanent mental, physical, and spiritual injuries.

Some situations are not preventable, particularly incapacitating and caretaking situations. This is not what I am talking about. I am speaking about those things that are preventable and inessential. All too often we stand in the spot where the dump truck begins to tilt its bed and unload its contents. It’s easy to become disconcerted, discouraged, and drained when you feel like you’re carrying the weight of the world on your back. Suddenly, we can find ourselves overwhelmed and suffocating under a pile of rubbish that we should have dumped long ago, rubbish that never belonged to us in the first place.

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Source: The Hurriedness and Harriedness | From Behind the Pen

Open Thread | Corrupt Judge Aileen Cannon Dismisses Classified Documents Case Against Donald Trump | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Adam Klasfeld
@KlasfeldReports
Until today, every federal judge that considered the issue—all eight of them—unanimously found that attorneys general can appoint a special counsel.

Judge Cannon departs from that tradition.

My story on arguments before her last month,
@Just_Security
https://x.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1812857216971550724

Symone D. Sanders Townsend
@SymoneDSanders
I know it’s easy to believe the analysis of our current times is full of hyperbole and unnecessarily dramatic musings, but it’s not. Mere weeks after Justice Clarence Thomas needlessly suggests Jack Smith’s appointment is unconstitutional in a concurring opinion, Judge Cannon uses that opinion to underscore her decision to dismiss the case before her in Florida.

Justice Thomas’ opinion was not a mere coincidence – and that is not my opinion. It is the only logical conclusion to draw.
https://x.com/SymoneDSanders/status/1812860586213994713

 

Source: Open Thread | Corrupt Judge Aileen Cannon Dismisses Classified Documents Case Against Donald Trump | 3CHICSPOLITICO