Political Quotes

“The housing crisis impacts us all. Regardless of whether you live in a city, a suburb, or a rural town, many Americans are concerned about their housing stability. Homelessness has risen every single year since 2017. The shortage of available and affordable housing has only worsened. High interest rates and student debt has made the American Dream of homeownership out of reach and impossible for too many. Severely underfunded programs are unable to tackle the most critical issues facing our communities in a meaningful way, and wages are just not keeping pace with rising housing costs. The human right to housing is more than a slogan and more than just four walls and a roof over someone's head. The human right to housing means realizing safety and stability and dignity through housing. I am convening tonight's Special Order hour for the Congressional Progressive Caucus, so that I, along with my colleagues, can talk about the housing challenges facing American households and the progressive solutions we can champion to address this issue. Some of those solutions are: bridging the gap between income and housing costs and expanding and preserving the supply of affordable, accessible rental homes for people with the lowest incomes, providing emergency rental assistance to households in crisis, strengthening and enforcing renter protections, and opposing efforts to undermine housing first and criminalize homelessness.…”