{"id":241197,"date":"2026-07-19T12:14:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/housing-costs-is-the-top-political-issue-for-young-voters-cnbc-survey-finds"},"modified":"2026-07-19T12:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:14:45","slug":"housing-costs-is-the-top-political-issue-for-young-voters-cnbc-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/housing-costs-is-the-top-political-issue-for-young-voters-cnbc-survey-finds","title":{"rendered":"Housing costs is the top political issue for young voters, CNBC survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/housing-costs-is-the-top-political-issue-for-young-voters-cnbc-survey-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cost of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/housing\/\">housing<\/a> is the top political issue \u2014 ranked higher than the cost of food or protecting democracy \u2014 among U.S. voters between 18-and 34-years-old, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/american-economic-survey\/\">CNBC survey<\/a> found.<\/p>\n<p>CNBC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/fm.cnbc.com\/applications\/cnbc.com\/resources\/editorialfiles\/2026\/07\/17\/CNBC_Q2_2026_Topline.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">All-America Economic Survey<\/a> for the second quarter of 2026, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/07\/17\/economic-outlook-is-worsening-and-trump-is-getting-blamed-cnbc-survey-finds.html\">polled 1,000 registered voters<\/a> across the country, found the cost of housing is a salient issue, particularly among the kinds of young voters that both parties are hoping to court heading into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elections\/\">2026 midterm elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was my contention and the contention of some other people that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> had a huge miss in 2024 by not talking more about healthcare. It is an issue where Democrats have had an advantage in polling for a long time,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/hartresearch.com\/teammember\/jay-campbell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Campbell<\/a>, a partner at Hart Research, the Democratic pollster for the survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of housing is the top political issue \u2014 ranked higher than the cost of food or protecting democracy \u2014 among U.S. voters between 18-and 34-years-old, a CNBC survey found. CNBC\u2019s All-America Economic Survey for the second quarter of 2026, which polled 1,000 registered voters across the country, found the cost of housing is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1506,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-food","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}