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Sanders Calls for a National Right to Housing
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Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced his plan to eradicate homelessness, reel in the housing market, and provide a homes guarantee that lives up to Roosevelt's dream, and the dream put forth by grassroots groups like People’s Action (we both worked on the policy team that helped develop their homes guarantee plan).
The plan calls for the National Housing Trust Fund - a small program which Sanders himself introduced during the last recession - to be massively scaled up to deal with the nation’s sizable shortage of affordable housing. 7.4 million units of permanently affordable housing would be built, acquired or preserved through the expansion of this program; as would 2 million additional new units of mixed-income social housing. These units would be permanently off the speculative private market, guaranteeing stable housing to millions of households. Further, new housing will improve economic security for the communities more broadly by securing local prevailing wages under the Davis-Bacon Act.
Adding to this, the Sanders plan would invest in other transformative interventions in the housing market, including a $50 billion fund to support the expansion of community land trusts - a model for democratic control of land ownership that can create affordable limited-equity homeownership opportunities. Permanent supportive housing would be provided to help end homelessness in America - not by locking them up, as Trump has recently proposed, but by providing homes as well as voluntary support and treatment for those that seek it.
...to date there is only one plan which places a floor in the housing market, and under people’s feet, through creating a massive publicly-funded housing production and preservation program while also creating a universal right to rent stabilization; and which invests a large sum of money in protecting over a million households who are already being failed by disinvestment in public housing. The housing market is failing tenants, and like Sen. Sanders says, we need a homes guarantee to ensure that nobody is made homeless or forced to spend over half their income on rent.
In the wealthiest country in the history of the world, we should be fighting to guarantee homes to everyone.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/washingtonbytes/2019/09/18/sanders-calls-for-a-national-right-to-housing/#4217fd494e76