HOUSING: Obama plan: Rehab vacant lots; wind down Fannie and Freddie.

“Let’s put construction workers back to work repairing rundown homes and tearing down vacant properties,” Obama said in prepared remarks in Phoenix.

The speech was the latest effort by the president to align himself with middle-class economic interests ahead of pitched battles this fall with congressional Republicans over funding the government and raising the debt ceiling.

Will the feminists complain — again — about too many jobs for burly men?