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Former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris focus on different ways to bring down housing costs, but both say America needs to build more housing. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images; Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption
A Florida court has blocked a developer from demolishing and replacing Miami's Biscayne 21 condominium. Greg Allen/NPR hide caption
Kayce Atencio, who had a heart attack when he was 19, was unable to rent an apartment for years because of bad credit attributed in part to thousands of dollars of medical debt. "It always felt like I just couldn't get a leg up," says Atencio, one of millions of Americans whose access to housing is threatened by medical debt. Rachel Woolf for KFF Health News hide caption