Short 'Rebuild the Middle Class' Stump Speech

Democracy cannot survive in America without the Middle Class which was well over 60% of us when I was a kid and is well under 50% of us now.  The greatest engine of Middle Class wealth accrual has been the income tax home mortgage exemption, yet last year Wall Street bought up 25% of single family homes and flipped them to rental property.  ‘Build to rent’ homes also increased from 5% of the market to 10%.  This trend has got to stop!  First time home buyers are being priced out of the market by high interest rates and cash on the barrelhead.

In this short video-taped stump speech I outline what need to be done:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DjWwcZEBTE2FdxmW7BKxnaaTuMgKb40C/view?usp=sharing