Here's How Newt Gingrich Would Fix the Housing Market

For someone who aims to establish a permanent moon colony and stage a manned mission to Mars by the end of the decade, Newt Gingrich hasn't lost sight of the problems that face those of us living here on Terra. At a conference on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the former Speaker of the House, onetime presidential candidate, and budding sci-fi novelist addressed a frustration that affects all humans: shelter. It should come as no surprise that his solutions for reforming the housing market were nothing less than radical.

Gingrich, who delivered an early keynote address for the Bipartisan Policy Center's 2014 Housing Summit, kicked off his talk with remarks about an Italian-designed 3D-printed electric car being produced by an Arizona company in Chicago. "This is so hard for Washington to grasp as a city," Gingrich said. "You are discussing policy reform in a world where people are taking something like
3-D printing and beginning the process of building cars."