Housing is healthcare because the conditions in which people live directly shape their physical and mental health. Safe, stable, and affordable housing reduces exposure to environmental hazards, lowers rates of chronic illness, supports medication adherence, and decreases costly emergency care and hospitalizations.

When people are forced into housing instability or homelessness, health outcomes decline and healthcare costs rise for everyone. Investing in accessible housing is not separate from healthcare policy, it is a foundational strategy to improve population health, reduce inequities, and build a system that actually prevents illness instead of just reacting to it.

What Elizabeth Will Do

Make Housing Affordable Again

• Crack down on corporate landlords and investment firms buying up single-family homes

• Provide first-time homebuyer assistance and down payment support

• Expand affordable housing development through federal grants

• Strengthen renter protections against predatory practices

• Cap rent increases to prevent price gouging

• Why it matters: Corporate greed has turned the American Dream into the American Nightmare. Homes should be for families, not Wall Street portfolios.
  
  

Make the Wealthy Pay Their Share

• Close tax loopholes for billionaires and corporations

• Ensure no billionaire pays a lower tax rate than a nurse or teacher

• Oppose tax cuts for the wealthy while working families struggle

• Why it matters: Amazon paid $0 in federal taxes in 2018 while Elizabeth's patients were rationing insulin. That's obscene.
  
  

Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
and Child Tax Credit

• Increase EITC to put more money in working families' pockets

• Restore the expanded Child Tax Credit that cut child poverty by 40%

• Make both credits fully refundable

• Why it matters: These aren't handouts—they're investments in families. And they work.
  
  

Support Workers' Rights to Organize

• Protect and expand union rights by passing the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act

• Oppose "Right to Work" laws that weaken unions

• Raise the federal minimum wage to a living wage

• Ensure fair scheduling and paid sick leave

• Why it matters: Elizabeth is a proud union supporter. Workers built the middle class, and unions will rebuild it.
  
  

Stop Harmful Tariffs That Raise Costs

• Oppose tariffs that increase prices on everyday goods

• Negotiate fair trade deals that protect American workers without gouging consumers

• Why it matters: When tariffs raise the cost of groceries, diapers, and medications, working families pay the price.
  
  

Expand SNAP and Food Assistance Programs

• Increase SNAP benefits to reflect actual food costs

• Simplify application processes

• Expand eligibility for working families

• Why it matters: No child in America should go to bed hungry. Full stop.