Affirming the right of all renters to a safe, affordable, and decent home.

supports a significant investment in housing resources to build and preserve affordable housing for America’s poorest families and to end homelessness and housing poverty once and for all;

supports lifting the spending caps required by the Budget Control Act of 2011 and robustly funding programs to increase access to affordable housing and address homelessness at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and other Federal agencies;

supports including in any infrastructure package housing investments to serve families with the lowest incomes, including $70,000,000,000 in funding for the Public Housing Capital Fund to address the backlog of capital repairs for public housing and at least $5,000,000,000 for the National Housing Trust Fund to boost the supply of affordable housing available to extremely low-income families;

affirms that renters may not be barred from federally assisted housing solely on the basis of a criminal record;

supports expansion of renters’ rights, including the right of tenants to organize tenant associations; and

affirms that housing is a basic human right.