California Rep. Maxine Waters introduces bills to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to fight homelessness and solve the affordable housing crisis
— includes over $150 billion in funding for affordable housing and investments in closing the racial housing gap. It aims to create almost 1.4 million affordable homes and help 294,000 households pay rent, while strengthening oversight of fair housing practices to battle discrimination. — includes $10 billion to provide housing for people experiencing homelessness and would make the temporary US Interagency Council on Homelessness permanent.
It would also dramatically expand the federal housing voucher program to make it an entitlement that all Americans who qualify for can receive, rather than being turned away due to lack of supply. Currently, just 20% of those who are eligible for housing vouchers actually got them, lawmakers
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