Affordable Housing:

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• We need to ensure that Ann Arbor's housing market serves people over their entire lifespan. Current housing costs price out of the community young people, life-long residents, and “essential workers” including teachers in Ann Arbor’s elementary and secondary schools, health care workers, grocery clerks, firefighters and police officers. New housing opportunities could transform these commuters (83,000 every weekday) into residents—and taxpayers. With your support I will work to: 

  • Commit to an assured funding stream for affordable housing 

  • Form public-private partnerships to build enough affordable units annually to meet our fifteen-year benchmark

  • Give renters, who make up over 50% of Ann Arbor’s population, a voice in city politics by creating a Renters’ Commission