Different tools, different jobs

Housing abundance and affordable housing belong together.

Market supply reduces scarcity; public investment serves households and needs the private market cannot adequately reach.

Treating supply and subsidy as rivals creates a false choice. When ordinary construction is blocked, public dollars must buy housing in a needlessly expensive market. When subsidy is absent, the lowest-income households may remain unable to afford even a well-supplied market.

Allow

Remove policy-created scarcity

Let homes respond to household growth and changing needs.

Fund

Provide deep affordability

Build social housing and fund vouchers or operating support where rent cannot cover cost.

Protect

Help people through change

Use targeted tenant protections, legal aid, and relocation assistance.

A simple example

A complete agenda

Under scarcity

One policy is asked to solve every affordability problem.

With more choices

Supply, subsidy, and protection reinforce one another.

Abundance is necessary for broad affordability, but it is not sufficient for every household.

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