Is Kamala Harris running the first ever YIMBY ("yes in my backyard") campaign for president? She's certainly talking like she is, even though her housing platform is riddled with policy proposals that will make high housing costs worse.
"There's a serious housing shortage in many places. It's too difficult to build, and it's driving prices up," said Harris in a mid-August campaign speech laying out her economic policy agenda. "As president, I will work in partnership with industry to build the housing we need, both to rent and to buy. We will take down barriers and cut red tape, including at the state and local levels."
