Podcast: Unpacking Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Proposal

New York Times The Daily podcast, November 17, 2025

When President Trump proposed the introduction of a 50-year mortgage, he challenged a bedrock of the American housing market and financial system.

Conor Dougherty, who covers housing and development for the New York Times, explains what’s attractive about the idea and its potential drawbacks — and why housing affordability is such an intractable problem.

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