Homes For All
As mayor, Lewis George will create homes for all incomes. She will build more homes by removing barriers, allowing for more types of homes in more places, and building near transit corridors. She will build better homes by prioritizing truly affordable housing and not relying on the markets alone. She understands that the government must be an active part of the solution from lowering the cost of rent to expanding pathways to homeownership.
Lewis George will build social housing–housing that is publicly-owned and mixed-income–and she will reinvest rents to lower costs, not increase profit. She will also give families a hand up into homeownership – strengthening the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act that helped her family buy the home they live in now – and expanding DC’s first-time homebuyer program to reach more residents and provide deeper support.