Housing

As the former Executive Director of the Center for Changing Lives—a Chicago-based nonprofit that provided essential housing services —Congresswoman Ramirez understands that housing is a human right. As co-lead of the Green New Deal for Public Housing and co-sponsor of the Fair Housing Improvement Act, the Ending Homelessness Act, and the Build Housing with Care Act, Ramirez is advocating for the expansion and rehabilitation of affordable housing units in our nation. Congresswoman Ramirez knows that affordable housing is the cornerstone of healthy, thriving communities.

Congresswoman Ramirez maintains that housing justice must always center tenants. In her first year in Congress, she introduced the Tenants’ Right to Organize Act to protect the power of tenants with federal vouchers to organize. As tenant organizations across the nation are changing the housing landscape, Ramirez’s legislation acknowledges that all tenants deserve decent, safe, stable, and sanitary housing.

As the daughter of working-class immigrants, Congresswoman Ramirez understands that owning a home is — for many families — a catalyst for building generational wealth. But discriminatory and exclusionary housing policies and an unaffordable and inaccessible housing market have made it far too difficult for many to achieve the dream of homeownership. A co-sponsor of the Original Fair Housing Resolution, the Housing for All Act, and the Housing Crisis Response Act, Congresswoman Ramirez is a champion for policies and programs that give Americans the opportunity to set roots in a place they can call their own.