Issue Position: Housing

Issue Position

As recent reports from both the Metropolitan Council and the Governor's Task Force on Housing reveal, Minnesota is not building enough housing, especially affordable housing, to shelter its growing population. As a result, housing prices are increasing to levels beyond the reach of many families. Newly forming families are unable to find starter homes that they can afford and increasing numbers of families find their budgets strained by high rent payments. Housing instability makes it harder for students to learn and for workers to hold down steady jobs, threatening the future of the state's economy. I will support programs which preserve existing affordable housing, support the construction of new affordable housing and reform regulations which make it difficult for homebuilders to build the entry-level housing that the market demands.

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