Expand affordable and public housing and protect tenants
Ocasio-Cortez supports federal incentives that give local governments additional funds for steps such as streamlining permits to build affordable housing. She also supports repealing the Faircloth Amendment, increasing Low Income Housing Tax Credit support, and permanently funding the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund. The Place to Prosper Act would cap annual rent increases for landlords with five or more properties at 3% of the prior year’s rent or the CPI increase, whichever is greater, provide tenants legal counsel in eviction proceedings, and bar landlords from refusing federal-assistance tenants.
Context: The rent cap applies to landlords with five or more properties. The federal housing and tenant measures are described as proposed legislation or advocacy, not enacted policy.
In their own words
The Place to Prosper Act, introduced by Alexandria in 2019, curbs rent increase for landlords who own 5 or more properties to just 3% of the preceding year’s rent
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