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Issue Position: Protect Affordable Housing

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2018
Issues: Business and Consumers Budget, Spending and Taxes Housing and Property

Protect existing affordable housing.
Create more and varied kinds of affordable housing, through more aggressive inclusionary zoning, support for community land trusts, and better public-private partnerships.
Provide tax relief to homeowners who are "house rich, cash poor."
Reinvest in public housing.
Tax big developers and speculators; use this revenue to subsidize affordable rentals and retail.
Require universities to provide affordable housing to grad students and postdocs.


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