Urgent Policy Priorities

• • Increase the supply, access, and habitability of affordable housing, including options to afford, preserve, and rehabilitate homes.
  • Counter increasing costs for vulnerable Hoosiers through policies that promote wealth-building and mitigate wealth-stripping (e.g., through predatory lending) for individuals and the community as a whole.
  • Address attacks on diversity, equity, inclusion, & justice policies impacting community economic development initiatives such as: reducing barriers to homeownership, wealth building, mortgage assistance; as well as providing support to organizations combating barriers to inclusive education, reproductive options, quality health care, and similar efforts. 
• State preemption reducing local options on policies such as tenant protections, source of income protections, taxes and revenue, etcetera.
• Prevent efforts to make regressive changes to Indiana's tax code that would increase the burden on the most vulnerable Hoosiers and the CED organizations who serve them.