In Nevada, where a burgeoning population and housing inventory that hasn’t kept pace have contributed to a particularly acute crisis, a new poll shows that residents favor robust federal intervention to make housing more affordable.
According to a survey conducted in Spanish and English by the Program for Public Consultation at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy, bipartisan majorities of Nevada residents indicated support for federal spending and tax incentive plans to create and maintain affordable housing options, $25,000 in down payment assistance for first-time homeowners, reducing corporate ownership of housing, offering incentives to reduce single-family zoning and increasing funding for public housing vouchers.
Pollster Steven Kull, a political psychologist at the University of Maryland and director of the Program for Public Consultation, said in an interview that the support comes as housing prices have increased far more rapidly than the general rate of inflation in the last few years and after Americans interacted with sweeping rent and mortgage assistance programs created during the COVID-19 pandemic…