We must build affordable housing in affordable communities. Red-lining, real estate racial steering, inadequate transportation, and other policies of social segregation have divided our country by race and class while at the same time making housing unaffordable for many. We need quality, affordable housing for all.
- A U.S. Credit Union’s local offices could provide credit for mortgages at reasonable costs to individuals and families.
- We need to construct attractive, comfortable, well-maintained publicly funded or publicly provided housing throughout our cities and suburbs.
- Such publicly funded housing, if well done, can include high-rise and low-rise buildings, houses and apartments, and special facilities for assisted living.
- The construction of such socially supported housing in significant numbers would lower rents for those in private housing.
