For over a decade, Scott has led a national movement to take on the broken status quo and tackle the housing affordability crisis. In Congress, he has a plan to build 8 million homes over the next decade to fix our broken housing system.
Housing in America is broken. In San Francisco and across the country, families are paying more for housing while having less to invest in their future. Rising rents, overcrowding, homelessness, megacommutes — there’s no question that this isn’t sustainable.Now Scott is fighting to pass the No Kings Act, which allows California residents to sue ICE and other federal agents for violating your rights. Under current law, it’s nearly impossible to sue a federal agent for excessive force, false arrest, etc. — leading to a sense of impunity and emboldened aggression by agents toward the public. Scott’s bill will put an end to that impunity.
Decades of underbuilding have left us with an extreme housing shortage, and the Great Recession kneecapped our ability to build our way out of it. Instead of taking responsibility, our federal government has offered us underfunded and fragmented programs that help around the edges but have failed to prevent the core problem from worsening.
There is no tackling America’s affordability crisis without addressing housing costs. Housing is the biggest monthly expense for most households, and ballooning costs make it increasingly impossible for them to get by. We need leaders in Congress who understand this is an emergency and will fight like hell to fix it.
A National Leader on Housing Affordability
Scott began fighting for more housing on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, where in 2012 he became the first Supervisor in a generation to upzone his own district. He took that fight to the California Legislature, passing laws that completely overhauled California’s broken housing system, helping lower costs and build tens of thousands of affordable homes.That San Francisco work helped spark a national pro-housing movement to tackle our affordability crisis by building abundant, affordable homes for people at every income level. Now, he’s taking that fight to Congress.
A Plan To End The Housing Crisis
Scott’s plan will build 8 million homes over the next decade. His national regulatory strategy will cut the red tape and reform bureaucratic processes to make homes faster and cheaper to build. And his national investment strategy will make a generational investment in social housing and affordable housing, paid for by reversing big portions of the Bush and Trump mega tax cuts on corporations and the wealthy.
