Every American should have access to housing that they can afford. The United States has a 4.7 million housing unit shortage, and families in East Tennessee are being priced out of their hometowns. Young people can't afford to buy their first home, seniors are losing their housing, and working families are spending more than half their income on rent.

We are facing a massive housing crisis, driving up rent and home prices, and pushing people out of their homes and out of our communities.

What I’ll work for in Congress to fix it:

• Reduce barriers to housing construction by modernizing land use and zoning laws

• Lower the cost to building low income housing projects

• Invest in our construction workforce through vocational training programs

• Fund innovative community projects to build better homes faster

• Support rural affordable housing programs

• Expand the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program to build more affordable units

• Get private equity out of the housing market by capping how many residential units corporations and foreign investors can own

Housing is a human right, not a commodity for Wall Street to manipulate. When families have stable, affordable housing, entire communities thrive.