For anyone dreaming of home ownership or a nicer place to rent, the speech Vice President J.D. Vance gave on Monday resonated with hope. It also angered a few people.
“I’m hard pressed to think of a time in my 40 years of life where it’s been so hard for normal American citizens to afford a home,” Vance said in Washington, D.C., at the National League of Cities Conference. “Even renting a home has become a challenge, or worse yet, fallen completely out of reach for so many of our families.”
He recounted a conversation with a relative who said that “when her parents were growing up, they could afford a nice home on a single middle-class income,” and that is no longer the case. Today, he said, in most cases it takes two times the combined income of a husband and wife to buy a new house.
“That’s just not acceptable or sustainable in the United…
