BROADEN HOME OWNERSHIP
Let go of the old-school “white-picket-fence” image of what home ownership was in the past and embrace every type of housing – including everything from single-family homes to townhouses to high-rise apartments.
Champion the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program to increase a family’s earned income and reduce their dependency on government assistance and rental subsidies.
Increase Housing Mobility-Related Services Notice of Funding Opportunity to the Community Choice Demonstration to expand housing choices for Housing Choice Voucher families by increasing their access to opportunity neighborhoods with high-performing schools, access to jobs, low crime, parks, and other amenities.
Overhaul the Opportunity Zone program, a program that incentivizes people to invest in distressed areas across the country. Add public reporting, terminate high-income zones, and prohibit casinos, stadiums and luxury apartments.
Fully support the HOPE VI program, a HUD program that strives to transform public housing by establishing positive incentives for resident self-sufficiency and comprehensive services that empower residents; lessening concentrations of poverty by placing public housing in nonpoverty neighborhoods and promoting mixed-income communities; and forging partnerships with other agencies, local governments, nonprofit organizations, and private businesses to leverage support and resources
Have the Bureau of Land Management auction off land suitable for residential development.