As a senator, I will take an "all of the above" approach to solve our housing crisis. This means I will prioritize funding programs that have proven results in moving unhoused populations into supportive services and housing. I know what it's like to live in unstable housing. When I was younger, we lost our family home during the subprime loan crisis, and to this day, my mother remains on a waiting list for subsidized housing. My veteran benefits were the only reason my wife and I were able to afford to buy our own home. 

I am in favor of the adaptive reuse of buildings and prefabricated modular housing. We need to be smarter with the funding we get for housing, and when we build projects with a combination of nontraditional housing formats and prefab, we will be able to cut the cost and build more units. Let's look at the many abandoned buildings causing blight in communities that need and should be converted into housing. I think about expanding Project Roomkey, which converts buildings like old hotels into a living situation. This should not be solely dedicated to housing our unhoused neighbors but also to people at risk of homelessness looking for an affordable unit. The pandemic changed the way we look at our workplaces, and now more than ever, we have empty spaces. Let's convert those spaces! Let's remove the subsidies that the fossil fuel industry receives and put that revenue towards affordable housing. We provide so many tax breaks and have too many tax loopholes for big corporations and the top 1%. We need and should shift this to projects that will provide value to our society.