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Candidates Answer Prosperity Indiana’s 2024 Housing and Economic Opportunity Election Questionnaire

16 Oct 2024 9:35 AM | Daniel Stroud (Administrator)


INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Candidates for Indiana Governor, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House of Representatives have detailed their plans to address Indiana’s most challenging housing and economic opportunity issues in their answers to Prosperity Indiana’s 2024 Housing and Economic Opportunity Election Questionnaire.


Prosperity Indiana, the only statewide network for Indiana’s community economic development organizations, released the questionnaire as part of the association’s ‘Our Homes, Our Votes Indiana 2024’ nonpartisan voter education and candidate engagement campaign. All candidates for Indiana Governor, U.S. Senator and U.S. House seats were contacted and invited to provide their answers to questions addressing issues of housing stability and affordability, pathways to achieving and sustaining homeownership, and equitable economic opportunity policies. At least two candidates for each level of office (Governor, Senator, and U.S. House) provided answers, including responses from four of Indiana’s nine Congressional districts. Responses reflect answers from Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and independent candidates. All candidates’ responses are presented below in full.


In addition to the questionnaire responses below, the Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian candidates for Indiana Governor responded to questions about housing affordability and homeownership inspired by ‘Housing Hoosiers’, the policy brief written by Prosperity Indiana for the Indiana University Public Policy Institute’s 2024 Gubernatorial Candidates Forum series.


Indiana Governor 

Mike Braun – see responses 

Jennifer G. McCormick – see responses 

Donald Rainwater – did not respond 

Christopher Ryan Stried – see responses 

 

U.S. Senate

Antonio Xavier Alvarez – did not respond 

Jim Banks – did not respond 

Phillip D. Beachy (Phil) – did not respond 

Andrew Horning – see responses

Valerie McCray – see responses 

 

U.S. House of Representatives 

District 1 

Dakotah Miskus – did not respond 

Frank J. Mrvan – did not respond 

Randy Niemeyer – did not respond 

 

District 2 

Lori A. Camp – see responses

William E. Henry – did not respond 

Michael John Hubbard – did not respond 

Rudy Yakym – did not respond 

 

District 3 

Kiley M. Adolph – did not respond 

Jared Lancaster – did not respond 

Marlin A. Stutzman – did not respond

 

District 4 

Jim Baird – did not respond 

Ashley Groff – did not respond 

Derrick Holder – did not respond 

 

District 5 

Deborah A Pickett – did not respond 

Lauri Shillings – did not respond 

Robby Slaughter – see responses 

Victoria Spartz – did not respond 

 

District 6 

James Michael Sceniak – did not respond 

Jefferson Shreve – did not respond 

Cynthia (Cinde) Wirth – did not respond 

 

District 7 

André Carson – did not respond 

Rusty Johnson – see responses 

John P. Schmitz – did not respond 

 

District 8 

K. Richard Fitzlaff – did not respond 

Erik Hurt – did not respond 

Mark Messmer – did not respond 

 

District 9  

Russell (Russ) Brooksbank – did not respond 

Erin Houchin – did not respond 

Timothy (Tim) Peck – did not respond 

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About Prosperity Indiana

The Indiana Association for Community Economic Development d/b/a Prosperity Indiana builds a better future for our communities by providing advocacy, leveraging resources, and engaging an empowered network of members to create inclusive opportunities that build assets and improve lives. Since its founding in 1986, Prosperity Indiana’s network has grown to nearly 200 organizations, representing thousands of practitioners statewide from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.


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