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.
Evidence
“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.
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.
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.
Assessments
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.