Social Housing | Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America
We need publicly owned social housing in DC that keeps working-class people in the city and puts families before developer’s profits.
We demand the Council pass the Green New Deal for Housing!!
Housing is a human right and every DC resident has the right to a safe, clean and stable place to live. After leaving the District’s housing crisis solely to private developers for decades, working families have been pushed out of DC or faced higher housing costs so developers and private investors can make more profits.
The DC Council must take bold action by passing the Green New Deal for Housing bill so the District can build publicly owned affordable housing that keeps working people in DC and benefits residents over developers. Popularized in Vienna, social housing allows cities like DC to build, manage, and grow a stock of mixed-income, publicly-owned housing. Moreover, by creating a public option for housing, we’ll drive down rents in private market housing, benefiting everyone.
Metro DC DSA has joined the Green New Deal for DC campaign, a growing coalition of activists, housing advocates, climate organizers, unions, and allies on the Council pushing to pass a social housing bill which would create an agency tasked with building, managing, and growing social housing in the District.
