I’ll take what I heard here back to Washington and use them to help fight for solutions.
I will take what I heard here back to Washington and use it to help fight for housing solutions.
Occurrences
Cut red tape and update permitting and zoning laws to build four million new homes in the next decade.
“Home insurance, rent, and mortgage costs keep climbing, flooding fears only grow, and we have a Republican Legislature that ignores our problems in Tallahassee, while handcuffing any local solutions at home,” said Wasserman Schultz. “Democrats are working to solve these problems, and that’s why I brought Congressman Cleaver here, so local leaders can work closely with us to help our hard-working families can afford to put a safe, comfortable roof over their head.”
Evidence
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“I’ll take what I heard here back to Washington and use them to help fight for solutions.” On May 4, 2026, Wasserman Schultz convened local elected leaders, housing advocates and residents facing skyrocketing housing costs to discuss possible solutions and reforms.
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Her Affordability Agenda is described as a policy roadmap focused on lowering the five core costs, including housing, with housing actions such as cutting red tape, updating permitting and zoning laws, eliminating unfair tax breaks to private equity and large investors, and increasing Low-Income Housing Tax Credit allocations.
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On March 5, 2026, she introduced the bipartisan Fair Housing for Survivors Act to protect survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence and sex trafficking from eviction and housing discrimination.
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On August 10, 2026, Wasserman Schultz and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver joined local housing advocates and public housing officials to discuss housing-cost solutions. The release says Cleaver stated that Wasserman Schultz worked to advance provisions in the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act important to her constituents, and that they discussed federal legislative solutions and additional local ideas.
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GovInfo records Public Law 119-101, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, approved July 11, 2026, with the full title: An act to increase the supply of housing in America, and for other purposes. The legislative history says H.R. 6644 passed the House, Senate, and final House concurrence before becoming law.
Assessments
Wasserman Schultz made concrete same-term follow-through on the housing promise: she convened housing stakeholders, tied the input to federal legislative work, introduced housing-related survivor protection legislation, advanced a housing affordability agenda, and was credited with advancing constituent-relevant provisions in the enacted 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. Because the promise was broad and framed as fighting for solutions rather than delivering a specific enacted policy, this demonstrates meaningful effort and some policy progress, but the evidence does not show that the broader housing-cost problem or a clearly defined promised solution was fully delivered.
The promise was to take local housing concerns back to Washington and fight for housing solutions, which is an effort-based commitment rather than a promise of a specific enacted outcome. Evidence shows she followed through in the same term by convening a housing affordability roundtable, unveiling an affordability agenda that included housing proposals, and introducing bipartisan housing-related legislation. However, the record provided does not show that these housing solutions were enacted or fully achieved. Because she clearly acted on the promise but did not demonstrably complete a concrete housing policy outcome, the best judgment is partial fulfillment.