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Utah is the #1 state in the country again 😟 According to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Housing Price Index, Utah leads the nation with a staggering 651.1% increase in housing prices from 1991 to 2024. No other state comes close. What started as a place where hard-working families could afford a home has become severely unaffordable for the next generation. This isn’t just a statistic. It’s pricing out young Utahns, first-time buyers, and even multi-generational families from the American Dream in our own backyard. Rapid population growth, federal overreach on public lands, unchecked inflation, and strained supply are driving it. As your next Congressman for Utah’s 3rd District, I won’t offer more government programs that got us here. We need principled leadership to get government out of the way and unleash free-market solutions. Here’s what I’ll fight for in Washington: • Secure the border, end illegal immigration, eliminate H - 1B visa fraud, and push for verification of asylum claims to reduce artificial demand pressure on our housing stock. • Cut wasteful federal spending and reduce our reliance on printed money to tame inflation and lower mortgage rates. • Return control of federal public lands (over 70% of Utah) to the state so we can responsibly develop housing and use our own natural resources like timber to bring down construction costs. • Support targeted property tax reform to protect homeowners from skyrocketing bills on unrealized gains. Utah’s greatest asset is its people, not endless regulation from D.C. Let’s restore housing affordability through freedom, not bureaucracy. Utahns deserve better.

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