What We Fight For

The concrete benefits:

• 3% annual rent caps to stop skyrocketing housing costs
• Ban corporate mega-landlords from buying up neighborhoods
• Expanded public and cooperative housing
• Strong tenant protections and relocation assistance
• Progressive taxation so billionaires and corporations pay fair share
• Worker-owned businesses and cooperative development

Why It Matters

Rent has increased 30% in three years while wages stayed flat. Corporate landlords and Wall Street firms buy up housing, jack up rents, and treat homes as commodities for profit maximization. Medical bills, housing costs, and basic necessities are unaffordable while billionaires get richer.

The cost of living crisis isn't inevitable—it's a choice the system makes. Both major parties serve the wealthy. We're fighting for an economy that makes life affordable.

Our Solutions

Affordable Housing & Tenant Protections

• 3% annual rent cap nationwide—limit rent increases to 3% per year or CPI, whichever is lower
• Ban corporate ownership of single-family homes—prohibit hedge funds and private equity from purchasing residential housing
• Just-cause eviction nationwide—require valid legal grounds for eviction, ban winter evictions
• Mandatory relocation assistance—landlords pay moving costs for displaced tenants
• Security deposit limits—cap deposits at one month's rent, allow installment payments
• Ban credit checks in rental applications—prohibit discrimination based on credit scores
• National vacancy tax—tax corporate-owned properties left vacant over 6 months
• Right to purchase for tenants—give renters first right to buy if landlord decides to sell

Expand Cooperative Housing

• Create residential cooperative housing bank for lending to cooperative housing organizations
• Provide incentives for cooperative housing conversions from apartment buildings
• Support limited-equity housing cooperatives for affordability
• Federal grants for cooperative housing development

Tax Fairness & Economic Justice

• Close corporate tax loopholes
• Progressive wealth tax on extreme wealth
• Cap CEO pay relative to worker pay
• End tax breaks for corporations that offshore jobs
• Redirect resources to working families

How This Advances Economic Democracy

Housing cooperatives represent economic democracy in action—residents collectively own and democratically control their housing. No distant landlord can raise rents or evict tenants arbitrarily. Communities make decisions together about their living spaces.

Public housing controlled by residents provides stable, affordable homes that aren't subject to market speculation. When housing serves people's needs instead of corporate profits, everyone benefits.

Learn more: Full Economic Justice platform →

What We Fight For

The concrete benefits:

• Medicare for All—universal healthcare for everyone
• No medical bankruptcies or crushing medical debt
• Dental, vision, and mental health coverage included
• No deductibles, copays, or surprise medical bills
• Free prescription drugs and medical treatments
• Long-term care and disability services

Why It Matters

68,000 Americans die each year because they can't afford healthcare. Medical bills are the #1 cause of bankruptcy. People ration insulin, skip treatments, and go without care they desperately need. Insurance companies extract billions in profits while denying coverage.

This isn't inevitable—it's a choice to treat healthcare as a commodity instead of a human right. Every other wealthy nation provides universal healthcare. We can too.

Our Solutions

Medicare for All Expand Medicare to cover every person in America:

• Comprehensive coverage including audio, dental, and vision
• Mental health and addiction treatment
• Long-term care and disability services
• Prescription drugs at regulated prices
• No networks, no denied claims, no surprise bills

Abolish Medical Debt Forgive all outstanding medical debt and prevent future bankruptcies from healthcare costs.

Regulate Drug Prices Cap prescription drug prices and allow government negotiation with pharmaceutical companies. No one should choose between medicine and rent.

Expand Healthcare Access

• Fully fund community health centers in underserved areas
• Guarantee reproductive healthcare including abortion and contraception
• Ensure gender-affirming care with full medical coverage
• Invest in rural healthcare infrastructure

How This Advances Economic Democracy

Healthcare as a public service—not a profit center—demonstrates what's possible when essential services serve people instead of shareholders. A publicly controlled healthcare system makes decisions based on health outcomes, not profit margins.

Medicare for All removes the power insurance companies have over life-and-death decisions. When healthcare is public and democratically accountable, working people have power over this essential service.

Learn more: Full Healthcare platform →

What We Fight For

The concrete benefits:

• 3% annual rent caps to stop skyrocketing housing costs
• Ban corporate mega-landlords from buying up neighborhoods
• Expanded public and cooperative housing
• Strong tenant protections and relocation assistance
• Progressive taxation so billionaires and corporations pay fair share
• Worker-owned businesses and cooperative development

Why It Matters

Rent has increased 30% in three years while wages stayed flat. Corporate landlords and Wall Street firms buy up housing, jack up rents, and treat homes as commodities for profit maximization. Medical bills, housing costs, and basic necessities are unaffordable while billionaires get richer.

The cost of living crisis isn't inevitable—it's a choice the system makes. Both major parties serve the wealthy. We're fighting for an economy that makes life affordable.

Our Solutions

Affordable Housing & Tenant Protections

• 3% annual rent cap nationwide—limit rent increases to 3% per year or CPI, whichever is lower
• Ban corporate ownership of single-family homes—prohibit hedge funds and private equity from purchasing residential housing
• Just-cause eviction nationwide—require valid legal grounds for eviction, ban winter evictions
• Mandatory relocation assistance—landlords pay moving costs for displaced tenants
• Security deposit limits—cap deposits at one month's rent, allow installment payments
• Ban credit checks in rental applications—prohibit discrimination based on credit scores
• National vacancy tax—tax corporate-owned properties left vacant over 6 months
• Right to purchase for tenants—give renters first right to buy if landlord decides to sell

Expand Cooperative Housing

• Create residential cooperative housing bank for lending to cooperative housing organizations
• Provide incentives for cooperative housing conversions from apartment buildings
• Support limited-equity housing cooperatives for affordability
• Federal grants for cooperative housing development

Tax Fairness & Economic Justice

• Close corporate tax loopholes
• Progressive wealth tax on extreme wealth
• Cap CEO pay relative to worker pay
• End tax breaks for corporations that offshore jobs
• Redirect resources to working families

How This Advances Economic Democracy

Housing cooperatives represent economic democracy in action—residents collectively own and democratically control their housing. No distant landlord can raise rents or evict tenants arbitrarily. Communities make decisions together about their living spaces.

Public housing controlled by residents provides stable, affordable homes that aren't subject to market speculation. When housing serves people's needs instead of corporate profits, everyone benefits.

Learn more: Full Economic Justice platform →

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