Platform - Green Party US
II. Social Justice
J. Housing and Homelessness
Rent Control
The Green Party recommends the following actions:
Rent Control
Defend and expand cities' right to enact local rent control laws, including vacancy control/recontrol, that fit the needs of their communities.
Provide for publicly elected Rent Control/Stabilization Boards for communities with local rent control laws.
Preserve and Increase Affordable Housing Supply
Defend and expand cities' ability to enact affordable housing inclusionary ordinances that fit the needs of their communities, so that the private sector will contribute its share of affordable housing construction.
Provide funding for publicly built affordable housing, including funding for non-profit corporations that build affordable housing.
Enact zoning to promote mixed-use development along transit corridors to locate housing next to jobs and public transportation.
Lower parking requirements for new multi-family development to lower cost of construction to enable greater affordability.
Regulate and limit the legal conversion of existing affordable housing into hotels, motels and short-term vacation rentals and establish and enforce laws to prevent illegal conversions.