2019-2021 Town Halls: on Welfare & Poverty

Elizabeth Warren: Need funding to help LGBTQ homeless youth

I propose to expand our funding that is specifically targeted to LGBTQ youth who are homeless.

Julian Castro: Bring back LGBT non-discrimination policies for HUD housing

CASTRO: I'm very proud that during the two-and-a-half years that I was housing secretary that me and the people that worked at HUD, we had a role in expanding those protections. It is a shame what this administration has done to roll them back. And the comments that Secretary Carson, my successor, made a couple of weeks ago are shameful. As president, I would make sure not only that we appoint people, including members of the LGBTQ community, to the cabinet, to the White House staff, and other positions in the administration who are going to ensure that we expand equal opportunity, but we absolutely will strengthen protections in housing and employment and health care, in every other context for members of the LGBTQ community.

Kamala Harris: Use the tax code to alleviate homelessness

HARRIS: Part of what I plan to do is through the tax code, so that if anyone is spending more than 30 percent of their income in rent plus utilities, you get a tax credit. And part of my plan is to create grants for people who live in federally subsidized housing or in historically red-lined communities to give them down payments and closing costs for homeownership. And then we need to create incentives for affordable housing.

Bernie Sanders: Would sign reparations bill; wants investment in poor areas