The Real Affordability Agenda: Affordability for All and How States Can Deliver It
SiX, in concert with the May Day Strong Coalition, proudly released the Real Affordability Agenda. This new report is the first-of-its-kind comprehensive agenda that outlines how states can tackle the affordability crisis.
Public dollars should be going toward attacking the affordability crisis, not funding private armies terrorizing our neighbors. We should live in a country where one job is enough to pay the bills. Where housing is affordable. Where health care, child care, and public schools are a universal right, not programs on the chopping block.
A future where working families are put before lawless billionaires isn’t unrealistic. It’s a policy choice.
The Real Affordability Agenda lays a clear plan to lower costs and raise standards at the same time, by making billionaires and corporations pay what they owe in taxes, raising workers’ wages, and funding the essential services working families demand and deserve.
The report breaks down the scope of the affordability crisis, and more importantly, the specific state policy levers that are being pushed by grassroots organizations and allied policymakers across the country right now. It includes winning strategies to tax extreme wealth, rein in predatory corporate practices from surveillance pricing to corporate homeownership, and policy frameworks across housing, wages, health care, education, transit, and utilities.
Click below to hear from legislators, unions, and advocates in the Real Affordability Agenda Press Conference.
The Real Affordability Agenda defines what affordability actually means and details how we can:
- Ban rent gouging and expand permanently affordable housing
- Raise wages to at least $25/hour and end subminimum wages
- Guarantee universal child care, free public college, and health care for all
- Strengthen worker organizing rights and establish a public jobs guarantee
- Tax extreme wealth and close corporate loopholes to fund brighter futures
The affordability crisis is not an accident. It is the result of decades of policy choices that favored corporate profit and extreme wealth over public well-being.
The Real Affordability Agenda explains how we reverse those choices, and highlights states like Massachusetts, where taxing the rich is funding education, and New Mexico, where they just enshrined universal child care as a right for everyone state-wide.
This isn’t theoretical. It’s achievable. And it’s already happening.
Resources
Real Affordability Agenda
State Lawmakers have Introduced 100-Plus Bills to Rein in Wealth Hoarding