This is the #DemPartyPlatform for This section is called: Putting Homeownership in Reach and Guaranteeing Safe Housing for Every American. Only one party has a specific plan for rebuilding the great American #MiddleClass. 1/11
#Democrats will empower renters by working to establish a national tenant right to organize, and support outreach and education to help tenants advocate to preserve and expand affordable housing. 3/11 #DemPartyPlatform#affordablehousing#TenantRights
#Democrats will provide legal support to fight wrongful evictions.
America’s history of using public policy &private lending restrictions to close neighborhoods off to Black families &other POC &strip equity from their communities is long, painful,& unresolved to this day. 4/11
#Democrats will vigorously enforce the Fair Housing Act, the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, and the disparate impact standard, and hold lenders accountable for discriminatory practices. 6/11 #DemPartyPlatform#FairHousingAct
#Democrats will also ensure that federal housing programs are better designed to affirmatively further fair housing.7/11 #DemPartyPlatform#AFFH
#Democrats will use the federal government to enforce settlements against discriminatory lenders, and require communities to proactively review housing patterns and remedy local policies that have a discriminatory effect. 8/11 #DemPartyPlatform#FairHousingAct
#Democrats will work to ensure that residential property and mortgage ownership records are publicly available and easily accessible, so that homeowners can always know who services their mortgage and who truly owns their debt. 9/11 #DemPartyPlatform#FairHousing
#Democrats will give local elected officials tools and resources to combat #gentrification, penalize predatory lending practices, and maintain homeownership, 10/11 #DemPartyPlatform
#Democrats will explore targeted rental relief when exorbitant rent increases force long-term residents from their communities and tackling persistent racial bias in appraisals that contributes to the racial wealth gap.11/11 #DemPartyPlatform#RacialWealthGap#TheRentIsTooHigh
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When the system is overwhelmed, the President should have emergency authority to expel migrants who are crossing unlawfully and stop processing asylum claims except for those using a safe and orderly process at Ports of Entry. 1/16 #DemPartyPlatform2024 #BorderSecurity
The authority should be accompanied by humanitarian exceptions for vulnerable populations including unaccompanied children and victims of trafficking. 2/16
#BorderSecurity #Harris_Walz2024 #DemPartyPlatform2024
#Congress should also dedicate resources to detain and remove individuals quickly, and rapidly process those who cannot be detained in a non-custodial setting under government supervision. 3/16 #BorderSecurity #Harris_Walz2024 #DemPartyPlatform2024
President Biden, Vice President Harris, and #Democrats know that democracy has always been America's sacred cause. Whether that's still true is the most urgent question of our time, and it's what the 2024 election is all about. 1/15 #DemPartyPlatform2024 #ProtectOurDemocracy
America is the only country on earth built on an idea: that all people are created equal. We've never fully lived up to that, but we've never walked away from it, either. And we won't let Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans walk away from it now. 2/15 #DemPartyPlatform2024
The President, Vice President, and all #Democrats will continue to work every day to ensure that our democracy endures.President Biden has put protecting American democracy at the heart of his presidency. 3/15 #ProtectOurDemocracy #Harris_Walz2024 #DemPartyPlatform2024
For too long in this country, too many communities have been denied the basic security and dignity that comes from having clean air, clean water, and functioning infrastructure. 1/16 #DemPartyPlatform2024 #EnvironmentalJustice #Harris_Walz2024
Too many parents still lay awake at night worrying what the rain or soil or water or air is doing to their kids. That kind of inequity goes against everything that we stand for as a nation. 2/16 #DemPartyPlatform2024 #EnvironmentalJustice #Harris_Walz2024
To finally change that, the Biden/Harris climate agenda includes the most ambitious environmental justice actions in history, making sure that the people who've suffered most from legacy pollution can now share in the benefits. 3/16 #DemPartyPlatform2024 #EnvironmentalJustice
Today, corporate consolidation is allowing companies to keep raking in historic profits, while continuing to raise prices for working families. 1/13 #DemPartyPlatform2024 #CorporateConsolidation #DemocratsDeliver #HarrisWalz2024
In the two decades before President Biden & VP Harris came to office, three-quarters of American industries grew more concentrated. As the President often says, capitalism without competition isn't capitalism, it's exploitation. 2/13 #DemPartyPlatform2024 #Competition #DemsAct
And the American people are tired of being played for suckers.The Biden/Harris Administration has taken historic steps to boost competition across our economy, in fields from finance and farming to technology and transportation. 3/13
#DemPartyPlatform2024 #HarrisWalz2024
American farmers are the backbone of our country. They feed America, and help feed the world. But over the years, trickle-down economics has hit rural America hard. 1/13 #DemPartyPlatform2024 #farmers #agriculture #HarrisWalz2024
#Farming costs have gone up & incomes have gone down.Big Agriculture moved in,telling too many small farms that the surest path to success was to get big or get out. As a result, we lost over 400,000 farms in the last 40 years, & rural communities have paid a steep price. 2/13
Too many young people have had to leave their hometowns to find good-paying work & a shot at their dreams.
#Democrats believe that no one should have to leave the community where they grew up just to find opportunity. 3/13 #DemPartyPlatform2024 #Agriculture #YoungPeople
At the start of the Biden-Harris Administration, in the midst of the worst economic crisis in 100 years, experts feared a stagnating recovery and even worried about a new recession. 1/11 #DemPartyPlatform #HarrisWalz2024
But #Democrats chose to put workers first, and instead of recession, America has seen remarkable strength and resilience. Our economy grew by 3.1 percent last year – the fastest rate of any major economy in the world. 2/11 #DemPartyPlatform2024 #HarrisWalz2024 #EconomyMatters
#Democrats added nearly 16 million jobs – not only recovering all the positions lost during Trump's botched handling of COVID, but also adding 6.3 million more than existed before the pandemic – surpassing pre-pandemic projections for the labor market. 3/11 #HarrisWalz2024