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. The content of the questionnaire was adapted from the national Our Homes, Our Votes campaign's candidate engagement resources, in consultation with the Prosperity Indiana Policy Committee and the steering committees of the Hoosier Housing Needs Coalition and the Indiana Assets & Opportunity Network. 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.
