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.
Where do you stand?
What should Arizona do to address its affordable housing shortage?
How important is this to you?
✓ You told us where you stand
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.