1) Campaign Email
2) Your Platform: Link to your website about housing.
3) Your Community: Is your district suffering from a housing shortage?
4) Your Record: Are there pro-housing policies or specific housing developments you have supported in the past that you would like to highlight?
5) What are the primary hurdles facing building new housing in Illinois, and what are the best ways to resolve them?
6) If elected, what kind of policies would you propose or support at the federal level to increase housing production, including using federal preemption?
7) What is your position on the ROAD to Housing Act?
8) The Build Now Act creates a carrot-and-stick system to modestly reallocate CDBG grants from high-cost-of-living municipalities that are blocking new housing to those that are facilitating it. Do you support tying federal infrastructure, housing, or transportation funds to local zoning and permitting reform? Why or why not?
9) When it comes to increasing housing supply, what is the correct balance between local control and federal preemption?
10) Would you support a change to the allocation of Department of Transportation funding between public transportation and highways? What would be the optimal allocation between the two?
11) Other than CDBG grants, what are some other enforcement mechanisms the federal government can use to ensure state and local governments are building enough new homes to reverse the national housing shortage? How would you support these mechanisms?
