Kamala Harris’s proposal to provide $25,000 for first-time homebuyers received cautious support in interviews with voters in Pennsylvania, a swing state that could decide the 2024 presidential election. The measure is part of a broad package of Harris’s economic initiatives intended to address Americans’ concerns about higher prices that have put big-ticket items, like a house, out of reach for many.

Like everywhere across the United States, people in Susquehanna County in Pennsylvania display yard signs to make clear which candidates they favor. Some are funny, others are straight-forward. Many use inflammatory words to attack one candidate and support the other. One sign in Nicholson made many passersby stop to snap pictures. The resident decided to support man’s best friend because, as the sign states, “people suck.”