Dennis Shea, Executive Vice President at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), highlights a New York Times Siena poll showing 54% of respondents find housing costs unaffordable, driven by a 20-year supply-demand imbalance—with construction lagging behind demand. Founded by former Senate Majority Leaders like Bob Dole, BPC’s data-driven reports reveal the "silent crisis" (per late developer Ron Tawilliger) now exposed, demanding urgent bipartisan solutions to stabilize prices and access amid rising political urgency. [Automatically generated summary]
BPC was founded nearly 20 years ago by four former Senate Majority Leaders, including my former boss, Bob Dole.
And it's designed to be a place where people from across the political spectrum can come together in good faith and try to figure out areas where we can advance the country.
So we have programs not just on housing, but on economics and fiscal policy, on health, on energy, on human capital, and on governance.
So it's a great organization.
I encourage everybody to check out our website at bipartisanpolicy.org.
It's a place where people find you can get the data-driven analysis, fairly written material, and good background material.
And we take positions too.
Well, let's talk about a poll.
This is a New York Times Sienna poll from last month about housing costs.