{"id":62007,"date":"2025-11-20T12:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/62007\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:58:16","slug":"los-angeles-housing-shows-the-limits-of-affordability-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/62007\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Housing Shows the Limits of Affordability Messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Democrats believe that by talking incessantly about affordability, they can deliver a knockout blow to Republicans in next year\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Such was certainly the advice of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/article\/build-baby-build-a-plan-to-lower-housing-costs-for-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">policy paper<\/a> released this week by the left-leaning Center for American Progress. In it, the authors zeroed in on housing, urging elected officials and candidates to prioritize the construction of new homes as a way to lower prices for rent and mortgages, and bring voters back into the Democratic Party fold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democrats believe that by talking incessantly about affordability, they can deliver a knockout blow to Republicans in next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,37462,10555,4019,989,48,52,51,721,47,50,49,5409,12417,24125,18120],"class_list":["post-62007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california","tag-center-for-american-progress","tag-cities","tag-construction","tag-elections","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-law","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-policy","tag-u-s-democrats","tag-u-s-republicans","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}