Issue Position: Affordable Housing

Issue Position

Under our current policies, 40,000 children in our public schools are unsheltered along with their families totaling about 120,000 unsheltered individuals. There are many more.

The state needs a Department of Housing, similar in scope to the Department of Transportation. Publicly provided housing could be made available across the state as part of infrastructure. We could develop housing stock similar to what is done in Singapore. It is the largest, most wealthy city in the world and has solved the housing challenge. They have built housing that people want to live in, the majority are large, 3 bedroom apartments that residents can purchase for 99 years. We are currently faced with huge housing instability due to lack of available and affordable housing and skyrocketing rents. We must assure fair housing opportunities for all. The current housing crisis demands a public solution.

We have to stop pushing out and pricing out the poor, the elderly, the young from every city.

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