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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 enact a new Homeowner and Renter Bill of Rights to protect families from abusive lenders and landlords. 2/11 #DemPartyPlatform #affordablehousing #HousingRights

#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

The Trump Administration has made matters worse by gutting fair lending and fair housing protections for homeowners. 5/11 #DemPartyPlatform #FairHousing #FairLending

#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