Since the 2008 global financial crisis, too few new homes have been built in the US, contributing to a surge in prices that has outstripped wages and left people struggling to find a place they can afford. \u2060
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\nThe shortage has become a contentious political issue as President Donald Trump tries to convince voters ahead of midterm elections in November that he is addressing the country\u2019s affordability crisis. \u2060
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\n\u2018We want homes for people, not corporations,\u2019 Trump said in his State of the Union speech last month. \u2060
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\nIn the FT\u2019s latest dispatch from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania our US economics editor Claire Jones looks at the challenges facing one American city trying to solve its housing shortage. \u2060<\/p>\n
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