Improving Housing for Working Americans - RICHARD D. KAHLENBERG SEPTEMBER 2024

Its mission is to develop and test new The party's history and legacy point in the themes, ideas, and policy proposals that can help same direction: Democrats do best when they Democrats and other center-left leaders make champion the economic aspirations and moral a new economic offer to working Americans, outlook of ordinary working Americans. [...] Economists point out the plan would have the a whopping 40% of its income to perverse effect of removing many workers who afford the median-priced home.3 make the construction of new housing possible.4 It’s especially important for working Americans that smart housing policies be enacted. [...] Working opportunity.12 And when working Americans are Americans moved to the parts of the countries able to move to high-wage metropolitan regions, with the highest wages to improve the lives of they often end up living in peripheral exurban their families. [...] Ironically, while some renters may benefit in The federal government, too, has a role to play the short term, the overall result is to increase in supporting states in their efforts to make housing prices, the opposite of what rent control housing more affordable for working families. [...] Under the law, remedies for plaintiffs who can moderate housing price increases.30 prevail in court would include those available Consider the case of Minneapolis, which in 2018 under the Fair Housing Act: covering monetary became the first major American city to legalize losses to the victims, the cost associated with duplexes and triplexes citywide and adopted a the work of attorneys to bring th.