Even our most senior members of Congress ignore the housing crisis.
They don't have a strategy to solve it. They are so out of touch that they don't even acknowledge it.
America is moving backwards in terms of the types of homes that our next generation will be able to afford.
I'm going to fight for the young people who feel like home ownership will never be attainable. Together, we're going to bring back the American dream.
The only way to lower prices in a dramatic and sustained way is to drastically increase supply. That's what we'll do
Housing Supply and Affordability Act of 2025
1. Awarding municipalities new infrastructure money in exchange for up-zoning urban areas
Infrastructure Block Grants will be awarded to pro-growth communities that are willing to accommodate needed affordable housing.
The federal government can help increase the supply of housing by awarding municipalities new infrastructure money in exchange for up-zoning their land use laws to accommodate affordable high-density residential development. For every square mile of up-zoned neighborhoods, the municipality would receive a billion-dollar grant for infrastructure improvements and to fund the construction of new affordable housing units.
In the Bay Area, many municipalities would benefit from these infrastructure grants. Cities like San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, San Jose, and Sacramento could receive billions in federal funding -- and with it modern, functional, perhaps even expansive, mass transit systems that allow the region to evolve into an even more dynamic global powerhouse.
As a society, we must make sure that there are enough homes for everyone. That requires more housing supply at every price point. From the high end to deeply subsided -- we need to build, build, build more homes so that every single resident has housing that they can afford and sustain.
To ensure that newly rezoned neighborhoods are rebuilt even more inclusively, we must fully pair this federal policy with strong municipal innovations that ensure that new market rate housing developments are required to have set aside units for low-income, disabled, and special needs persons.
2. Affordable Housing Tax Credit:
a one trillion dollar investment in America's housing stock will finance the construction of 6.6 million new homes
The Affordable Housing Tax Credit will incentivize private sector investment in affordable housing by offering matching federal dollars for the construction of rental units that are offered deeply below market prices.
To ensure that tenants of these permanently affordable rental units will also have an opportunity to purchase their units, the legislation will mandate access to new consumer lending options through various federal housing finance agencies, like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Creating new ownership-finance tools will allow the housing market to better innovate to meet housing needs -- creating new options like communal housing, cooperative housing, accessory dwelling units, tiny housing, mobile/motorized housing, and dormitory housing, for instance.
3. Accelerated funding for supportive housing managed by non-profit service providers
Northern California is in desperate need of new supportive housing units for low income individuals suffering from chronic homelessness. Because of the Bay Area's unique climate, we have become a destination for the destitute. Our region is in need of special congressionally appropriated spending to address the humanitarian emergency that we find on our streets. Rather than turning a blind eye to the drug and housing epidemic in our midst, we need congressional leaders who are willing to admit we have a problem -- and the resolve to solve it.
4. Making federal lands available for manufactured housing parks to enable 'tiny house' trend
Federal lands near small cities and rural communities should be made available to accommodate the 'tiny house' trend. Making these lands available to plot new manufactured or mobile home communities will alleviate housing demand in rural communities that are also facing supply constraints.
In California's rural communities, these modular housing parks will provide needed housing for farm workers, seasonal workers, and transitional housing for the recently incarcerated.