Last month, Lee introduced a now-removed amendment to Trump’s policy megabill that mandated the sale of up to 3 million acres. It did little to address the challenges of building affordable housing on public land.

  • Land for Housing: A measure to sell public land to build affordable housing was cut from Trump’s policy megabill, but key officials and interests say they’ll continue pursuing the idea.

  • Nevada’s Experience: While the idea has support from both liberals and conservatives, the biggest existing attempt to do so, in Nevada, has so far created little affordable housing.

  • What’s Worked: Some experts see promise in targeted sales of federal land at low cost instead of big sell-offs at market rates. Such sales are allowed in Nevada, but little understood.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Land isn’t the issue there, Mike. Let alone land that’s part of preserves in the west.

    You’re not building houses in Dinosaur National Monument space, for example. There’s no water, it’s miles from anywhere, etc.

    Though I’ll agree fed government owns too much of the land in the west, but I don’t have a solution for that.

  • DMCMNFIBFFF@reddthat.comEnglish
    2·
    17 days ago

    If <400 million Americans each got 20 meters x 20 meters of land for housing, that would be:

    160 billion square meters of land,

    or 16 million hectares (≈ 39.52 million acres),

    or 160 000 sq km (<62 000 sq miles)

    or less than 80% the size of Utah.