Housing, Homeownership, & Protecting Our Neighborhoods
For an entire generation of Americans, the dream of owning a home hasn’t just slipped away—it’s been stolen. Young adults are working harder than ever, doing exactly what they were told to do to build a life, yet they are completely locked out of the market by sky-high rents, inflated home prices, and stagnant wages. This is not a personal failure; it is a profound failure of policy. For decades, the system has treated housing as an aggressive investment playground for hedge funds and corporate real estate speculators rather than a fundamental human necessity. Wall Street is buying up entire suburban blocks, outbidding working families, and driving local buyers out of the very communities they love just to pad corporate bottom lines.
I am running for Congress to put an end to this corporate greed and make homeownership a realistic reality again. I am fighting to ban institutional investors and hedge funds from buying up single-family residential homes, while aggressively expanding federal down-payment assistance for first-time, middle-class homebuyers. We must change our approach by funding the development of mixed-income, sustainable, and transit-accessible neighborhoods, while ensuring current residents aren’t displaced by unchecked gentrification. Homeownership cannot be a luxury reserved only for the wealthy few. It’s time to build a system that allows our next generation to build long-term wealth, security, and community right here at home.
