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| https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/news-coverage/curbed-elizabeth-warren-doubles-down-on-affordable-housing-legislation | Curbed: Elizabeth Warren doubles down on affordable housing legislation | 2018-12-12 | 2018 | 2018-12 | Democrat | House | MA | Elizabeth Warren | W000817 | www.warren.senate.gov | legacy | December 12, 2018 Curbed: Elizabeth Warren doubles down on affordable housing legislation Today, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) doubled down on her strategy to fix America's housing crisis. Along with Rep.Cedric Richmond(D-LA) and Rep.Gwen Moore(D-WI), she introduced the American Housing and Economic Mobility Act to the House, a companion to a Senate bill Warrenintroducedin September. America is facing a housing crisisa crisis that has been decades in the making, Sen. Warren said at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center. This is a crisis that hits middle-class families, working families, the working poor, the poor poor. Costs are up and over time housing stock is deteriorating. The American Housing and Economic Mobility Act confronts the shameful history of government-backed housing discrimination and is designed to benefit those families that have been denied opportunities to build wealth because of the color of their skin. TheAmerican Housing and Economic Mobility Acttakes a comprehensive approach to the housing crisis, tacklingaffordable housingsupply through a $450 billion investment over a decade into theHousing Trust Fundto build or preserve rental units; strengthens the Fair Housing Act to ban discrimination on sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity, and income source; incentivizes rezoning; funds housing construction on rural and tribal land; and closesthe racial wealth gapby providing down payments to first-time homebuyers in formerlyredlined neighborhoodsor segregated areas. A tax increase on the wealthiest Americans will pay for the bill. Read more here. By: Dianna Budds Source: Curbed Print Email Tweet Previous Article | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |