Affordable housing crisis
Affordable housing has emerged as a top voter priority in Arizona heading into 2026. Polling from Noble Predictive Insights shows that 58% of Arizona voters say President Trump is doing a poor job on affordable housing, reflecting deep dissatisfaction with both federal and state-level responses to soaring home prices and rents across the Phoenix and Tucson metro areas.
What should Arizona do to address its affordable housing shortage?
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Sources
Noble Predictive Insights — https://www.noblepredictiveinsights.com/post/arizona-political-climate-division-division-division
More than half of Arizona voters say Trump is doing a poor job on inflation (55%) and affordable housing (58%).
Arizona Future — https://www.facebook.com/azfuture/posts/out-now-the-2026-arizona-voters-agenda-identifies-the-priorities-that-earn-suppo/1081566127775504
From affordability and housing to water, immigration, and education, the findings provide a framework.
Positions on this issue · liberal → conservative
- Dramatically expand public housing funding, enact rent control, and mandate affordable units in all new developments.
- Increase state and local investment in affordable housing and incentivize developers to build lower-cost units.
- Reform zoning laws to allow more density and let the market respond to demand for affordable homes.
- Limit new regulations and reduce taxes on developers to encourage private market housing construction.
- Housing affordability is primarily a market issue; government intervention tends to make shortages worse.