What Went Down In The Fifth Democratic Debate

The conventional wisdom used to be that mayors weren’t credible presidential candidates. Now Booker seems more eager to talk about his experience as a mayor than his experience in the Senate.

I think this is the first time the candidates have gotten a question about housing, but it’s a topic that several of them have addressed in depth. Warren, for example, just released a plan to lower the costs of renting a home.

Steyer is giving a decent answer on housing if he were running for governor of California. I remain skeptical that the presidency is the place to start with this issue, and in some places, housing is perfectly reasonable but there are no jobs. If this is a question for the president, it’s a national one and not just about astronomical prices in California, which after all is not a swing state. 😉