Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) unveiled “A Just Society,” an ambitious anti-poverty proposal, on September 25. The proposal aims to improve federal anti-poverty interventions through six bills that would, among other things, revise, update and improve the national poverty measure; improve tenant protections; extend public benefits to immigrants regardless of their immigration status and to individuals who have been involved with the criminal justice system; encourage federal contractors to offer better wages and benefits to their workers; and ratify the U.N. Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.
Ocasio-Cortez’s housing plan, the “Place to Prosper Act,” would create an access-to-council fund to ensure low-income renters facing eviction can secure legal representation and would restrict the reasons a tenant could be evicted. The bill would also enforce a national 3% cap on annual rent increases, prohibit housing discrimination on the basis of source of income, and impose disclosure requirements on corporate landlords. The bill also aims to improve housing conditions by allocating $10 billion for toxin abatement for fiscal years 2020-2029.
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