Issue Position: Protect Affordable Housing
Issue Position
Issues: 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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