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PEOPLE'S ACTION UNVEILS BOLD PLAN TO GUARANTEE HOMES FOR ALL

21 million households can’t afford the rent. It isn’t right that and millions of us are forced to choose between putting food on the table or paying the rent, especially in the richest country in world history. People impacted by housing injustice know that the solution is not more shelters or more vouchers – the solution is a Homes Guarantee.

Everyone living in the United States should have safe, accessible, sustainable, and permanently affordable housing: a Homes Guarantee.

Right now, our country falls woefully short of delivering on this basic human right. At a time when corporate landlords are buying up more and more land and real estate and the federal government is divesting from affordable housing programs, housing insecurity has become a defining fact of life for millions of people in the United States.

We must end our country's housing crisis, and piecemeal reforms won't get us there. We need big, bold systemic change.

Our Homes Guarantee will:

• Build 12 million social housing units and eradicate homelessness
  
• Reinvest in existing public housing
  
• Protect renters and bank tenants
  
• Pay reparations for centuries of racist housing policies
  
• End land and real estate speculation and de-commodify housing
  

Fully realized, this proposal will guarantee homes for all. Rents will be set based on tenants’ needs and real costs to local government, rather than by speculative market prices. Land will be stewarded by everyday people, for everyday people, instead of being financialized by developers and landlords.

The Homes Guarantee will offer both reparative and proactive approaches to our housing crisis, including restorative justice to communities impacted by decades of discriminatory housing policy, as well as investments that slash carbon emissions and support resiliency from ongoing climate breakdown.

Download our briefing book and learn more about the campaign for a national Homes Guarantee by visiting homesguarantee.com.

And once you do, tell us what you think. Join the conversation on Twitter by using #HomesGuarantee and tagging @PplsAction.

Win, we must!
Tara