Last month, Lee introduced a now-removed amendment to Trump’s policy megabill that mandated the sale of up to 3 million acres. It did little to address the challenges of building affordable housing on public land.

  • Land for Housing: A measure to sell public land to build affordable housing was cut from Trump’s policy megabill, but key officials and interests say they’ll continue pursuing the idea.

  • Nevada’s Experience: While the idea has support from both liberals and conservatives, the biggest existing attempt to do so, in Nevada, has so far created little affordable housing.

  • What’s Worked: Some experts see promise in targeted sales of federal land at low cost instead of big sell-offs at market rates. Such sales are allowed in Nevada, but little understood.

  • DMCMNFIBFFF@reddthat.comEnglish
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    5 months ago

    If <400 million Americans each got 20 meters x 20 meters of land for housing, that would be:

    160 billion square meters of land,

    or 16 million hectares (≈ 39.52 million acres),

    or 160 000 sq km (<62 000 sq miles)

    or less than 80% the size of Utah.