Issue Position: Housing

Issue Position

Madinah believes that everyone deserves a safe place to call home. But for too many people in the 26th district, their access to housing is constantly under threat. In manufactured housing communities, like Glasgow Courts, tenants own their homes but not the land it rests on. This means they can be evicted any month if the landowner sells the property to a developer. In other rental properties, leases can be changed unexpectedly leaving families in dire situations.

To make sure that everyone has a roof over their head, we need to expand protections and make sure that everyone has the opportunity to either own their home or own their neighborhoods as a community.

Create a new Tenants' Bill of Rights
Expand the rights of tenants in order to provide more secure housing.
Increase resources to enforce tenant protections.
Ban discrimination by source of income, including Section 8 vouchers.
Extend the Delaware Housing Assistance Program to prevent an eviction crisis in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Address manufactured housing issues
Pass laws enforcing more accountability for landowners who rent to manufactured housing residents.
Increase funds for the Manufactured Home Owner Attorney Fund without increasing the burden on homeowners.
Promote access to the resources needed for residents to organize and move towards a resident-owned community.
Push for more affordable housing and opportunities for homeownership
Encourage the creation of more community land trusts.
Guarantee civil legal aid for tenants.
Expand opportunities to rent-to-own homes.

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