Housing Policy
Everyone has a right to affordable housing with a high standard of living. Here’s how we’ll make it possible across all of Madison:
Develop More Multi-Family Housing
Our top priority needs to be the creation of affordable, sustainable, multi-family housing. However, we must also prevent rents from continuing to skyrocket. By building dense, multi-family housing across the city, we will increase the supply of available units, and decrease prices for all. We also have to make sure this housing is built across Madison, to make sure that the entire city experiences equitable economic development.
Combat Homelessness
The council reached a major milestone in our fight against homelessness by greenlighting the construction of a new shelter for unhoused men. But there is still so much we need to do. I will fight to allocate more resources to social workers and services that can address the root causes of the problem, as well as continuing to build more shelters in other parts of the city to better serve those experiencing housing insecurity.
Strengthen Tenant Resources
Due to overreaches of the Republican Assembly, the city is incredibly limited in what it can do to prevent bad landlords from raising rents, removing tenants, or failing to provide repairs or services. So the city must find every opportunity in the law to hand power back to tenants, including increasing penalties on landlords who violate our rules, funding tenant legal services and education, and encouraging the formation of a renters’ union.