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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson keeps making wild claims about his affordable housing program that just don’t add up. The numbers show his big government spending spree is failing the very people he claims to help. While Johnson brags about billions in taxpayer money, ordinary families still can’t find affordable places to live.
Johnson’s administration pushed through a massive $1.25 billion bond program that puts taxpayers on the hook for decades. They’re setting up a new government-run housing developer with $135 million in startup costs alone. This is exactly the kind of wasteful big government solution that never works but always costs working families more money.
The mayor even posted on social media claiming the city invested $11 billion to build 10,000 affordable housing units. That works out to a shocking $1.1 million per unit. When people called out these ridiculous numbers, Johnson quietly deleted the post instead of explaining where all that money really went.
Meanwhile, the results speak for themselves and they’re pathetic. Chicago only issued 4,039 new residential building permits in all of 2024. Compare that to Houston, which approved 52,000 new homes in the same time period. Democrat-run Chicago is crushing development while Republican-led cities are building homes people can actually afford.
The city claims there’s a shortage of over 126,000 affordable rental homes for low-income families. After years of Johnson’s policies and billions in spending, that gap keeps getting bigger. His solution is always the same tired playbook: more government control, more taxpayer money, more bureaucracy.
Johnson’s Green Social Housing plan passed the City Council by just 30 to 18 votes, showing even some Democrats are getting nervous about this spending disaster. The plan creates a new government agency to compete with private developers who actually know how to build housing efficiently. This socialist approach has failed everywhere it’s been tried.
Over half of all new housing permits in Chicago went to just four wards out of fifty total. So much for Johnson’s promises about equity and helping all neighborhoods. The mayor talks a big game about affordable housing while his policies make it harder and more expensive to build anything.
Conservative critics are right to call out these failed liberal policies that waste taxpayer money while making housing less affordable. Chicago families deserve better than empty promises and billion-dollar boondoggles that only make politicians look good while real people suffer.
