Last week’s Democratic National Convention saw Vice President Harris and party leaders bringing housing policy back into the national conversation in a way not seen since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society era in the 1960s. The new mantra within the Democratic Party now sounds a lot like “Build, baby, build.”

“There is a serious housing shortage. In many places, it’s too difficult to build and it’s driving prices up,” Harris said at a North Carolina rally on Friday. “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.”

Harris’s embrace of an ambitious plan to expand the housing supply while supporting first-time homeowners with a $25,000 mortgage credit caught the pundit class by surprise. But it’s just the latest example of her embrace of the populist attitude sweeping the nation.

It also brings Democrats back a core party value they seemed to have forgotten in recent years: ensuring America’s working class can enjoy the benefits of home ownership.

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