would invest more than $200 billion in affordable housing and support services, $27 billion annually for services for unhoused people, and $100 million per year for community-driven alternatives to people experiencing homelessness."Housing is a human right, and nobody in the world should be without a place to call home, especially not in America," said Meng .
Even in more affordable cities renters are spending more, with the average monthly rent in Cincinnati, Ohio costing 19.4% of the average monthly income—up from 18.4% last year. In Birmingham, Alabama, renters spend an average of 22.2% of their income on housing. "As costs have risen and the minimum wage has stagnated, it would take the average minimum wage worker more than 96 hours of work per week to afford a two-bedroom rental," noted Jayapal .
The shrinking stock of affordable housing is linked to the crisis of homelessness, which more than half a million people in the U.S. experienced in 2022—up by 3% from 2020. "The crisis of housing instability is one that can be fixed by investing in housing infrastructure and supportive services for vulnerable communities," said Jayapal.
A product of someone else’s labor can never be a right, otherwise eventually someone has to be forced to provide said product, which would violate that persons rights, this logical fallacy plays out over and over in the FREE STUFF HERE political strategy
This sounds great in theory, but it’s valid political posturing. They could’ve done this when Democrats had the majority. That’s when they could’ve actually gotten it passed. Instead they waited until they were the minority, knowing it won’t pass now. Very unserious.
Income inequality trend has to stop.
Anyone else thinking the $300B investment they’re referring to are the 15-minute cities? Lol