On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald J. Trump outlined many big plans, from achieving energy dominance to carrying out the largest deportation operation in American history. Now, as his administration begins to take shape, enthusiasm is building for Trump’s proposed solution to the housing crisis: chartering new “Freedom Cities” using millions of acres of what is currently federal land.
“We’ll actually build new cities in our country again,” Trump said in the 2023 “Agenda 47” video announcing his plan, which hinges on a contest to create up to 10 such cities.
A year and a half later, in the lobby of a D.C. hotel, Nick Allen was enthusiastic about that vision.
“When there are new cities that are built in the U.S., new industries can form, and a new middle class can emerge,” he told The Epoch Times.
Allen, 31, is a cryptocurrency investor and the proprietor of Sovereign House, a cultural events space. While he said he has no financial stake in prospective Freedom Cities, the Frontier Foundation, of which he is a member, has become a very public booster of the idea. […]
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