Housing as a Right

No one in Delaware should go without a safe and affordable home. We must combat real estate speculation and the development of luxury housing that only the wealthy can afford. By investing in affordable housing across the country, we can end homelessness, housing insecurity, and empower tenants to organize their own communities.

 

Our Vision and Core Policies

Federal Tenants’ Bill of Rights

  • Mandate that landlords cannot discriminate against any prospective tenants based on their source of income or whether they receive Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8)

  • Ensure that tenants have access to information about complaints that have been filed against landlords

  • Forbid repeat-offender landlords from buying federally backed mortgages

  • Protect the right of tenants to organize and collectively bargain

  • Include LBGTQIA folks in the Fair Housing Act

  • Implement a federal rent cap

  • Authorize federal funds for lead abatement and other programs to ensure that apartment buildings are up-to-code, habitable, and safe

  • Guarantee counsel for tenants facing legal proceedings by providing federal matching grants to states and localities

  • Address vacancy control

  • Prohibit eviction and refusals to renew without good cause

Properly Fund HUD and Invest in our Public Housing Stock

  • Repeal the Faircloth Amendment

  • Turn the Section 8 voucher program into an entitlement program

  • Ensure that public housing units are climate-resilient, decarbonized, and developed across diverse income and geographic areas

End Housing Discrimination

  • Increase federal funding to ensure that the government is able to enforce anti-discrimination laws in the Fair Housing Act

  • Strengthen Dodd-Frank so that mortgage providers are unable to hide their illegal redlining practices

  • Support first time homebuyers, particularly those from marginalized communities

  • Fight redlining and racial segregation

  • Stop predatory and subprime lending practices