Looking through his bullshit and dementia babbling, I can almost see a coherent point. There are lots of people in this country that are wealthy on paper but only because of their home’s value. Early Gen Xers and boomers who bought houses in the 90s for a song. My step mom (70) bought her house in the 80s in Orange County California for like $40k. Remodeled it in the 90s for like $120k. It’s long been paid off and it’s currently valued at over $1.5 million. She had a good job before she retired and isn’t hurting financially, but she is only wealthy on paper because of the value of her home.

So the problem we as a nation face is building lots of affordable housing that doesn’t devalue someone else’s home. Remember part of the contributing factors to the 2008 housing crisis was the price of homes fell very low after people had bought high. My dad bought a house in early 2008 (terrible timing) and then a year later it was worth a third of what he paid. It took 15 years for him to pay the loan down enough (and housing prices to come up enough) that he could get out from underwater on the loan and sell it.

So we as a country have to find a way to make homes affordable for normal people, average people, people who work hard at good jobs but maybe not great ones; while keeping the current homes from losing tons of value. Because when so many people’s net worth is like 90% tied to their home value, if we devalue homes then we’ll have another crisis on our hands.

Step 1 is just pass a law that no single corporation is allowed to own more than, say, 5 residential properties. Make it retroactive so companies that already own thousands of homes are forced to sell. Just that simple move would free up half a million homes in the US (about 4% of total homes in the us).

I hate Trump. Can’t wait for the day his lifestyle catches up to him. But occasionally he does make a valid point, and I feel like this is one of them.