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  • HOME OWNERSHIP
Winning Issue » HOME OWNERSHIP


As housing prices have skyrocketed, the lack of access to affordable housing has become a source of financial insecurity for many American families. In communities throughout this country, people struggle to pay their bills while their rent increases and their paychecks remain the same. Hardworking residents continue to be pushed out of the neighborhoods in which they were raised, and some are ending up on the streets. Advocates say it is unacceptable that owning a home and paying rent is out of reach for the majority of Americans, especially those who have been historically disenfranchised. They claim it’s time to make housing more affordable and reverse decades of discriminatory policies that have denied black and brown families access to neighborhoods with decent paying jobs, high performing schools and a chance at upward mobility. They say that correcting these problems will create opportunities for families to afford the basics - including health care and education - and lift themselves into the middle class.

Proposed Legislation: Reintroduction of S.1368 - American Housing and Economic Mobility Act of 2021
Prospective Sponsor: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA)



Options


  • I oppose reforming current home ownership policy and wish to donate resources to the campaign committee of Leader Charles Schumer (NY).
  • I support:
    1.) Controlling the cost of renting or buying a home by leveraging federal funding to build up to 3.2 million new housing units for lower-income and middle-class families.

    2.) Bringing down rents by 10% and creating 1.5 million new jobs.

    3.) Putting $10 billion into a new competitive grant program that communities can use to build infrastructure, parks, roads or schools; providing down payment grants to first-time homebuyers living in formerly redlined or officially segregated areas.

    4.) Investing $2 billion to support borrowers with negative equity on their mortgages in mostly suburban and rural communities; prohibiting housing discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status and source of income.

    5.) Making it easier to use housing vouchers in neighborhoods with good schools and good jobs.

    And wish to donate resources to the campaign committee of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA) and/or to an advocate group currently working with this issue.


Winning Option
  • I support:
    1.) Controlling the cost of renting or buying a home by leveraging federal funding to build up to 3.2 million new housing units for lower-income and middle-class families.

    2.) Bringing down rents by 10% and creating 1.5 million new jobs.

    3.) Putting $10 billion into a new competitive grant program that communities can use to build infrastructure, parks, roads or schools; providing down payment grants to first-time homebuyers living in formerly redlined or officially segregated areas.

    4.) Investing $2 billion to support borrowers with negative equity on their mortgages in mostly suburban and rural communities; prohibiting housing discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status and source of income.

    5.) Making it easier to use housing vouchers in neighborhoods with good schools and good jobs.

    And wish to donate resources to the campaign committee of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA) and/or to an advocate group currently working with this issue.
There has been $0.00 pledged in support of this issue
Trustee Candidates

If elected as a trustee, the campaign committee of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA) will be unconditionally awarded the funds pledged to this issue along with a letter requesting her to favorably consider either reintroducing S.1368 - American Housing and Economic Mobility Act of 2021 (117th Congress), or a similar version thereof.

If elected as a trustee, National Low Income Housing Coalition will be awarded the funds pledged to this issue along with a letter requesting these funds be used to advocate for providing homeownership and rent assistance to underserved communities.

About: The National Low Income Housing Coalition is dedicated solely to achieving socially just public policy that ensures people with the lowest incomes have affordable and decent homes. Our goals are to preserve existing federally assisted homes and housing resources, expand the supply of low income housing, and establish housing stability as the primary purpose of federal low income housing policy. We accomplish these goals by educating lawmakers and the public about the need for affordable homes, mobilizing members and supporters across the country to advocate for good housing policy, and shaping public opinion of low income housing issues.
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Trustee Election - Opening Date
November 11, 2024
Trustee Election - Closing Date
November 18, 2024