Donna Christensen on Welfare & Poverty Delegate to US House (VI-AL)

Sponsored funding re-development of abandoned & foreclosed properties.

Congressional Summary:Appropriates funds for assistance to eligible entities including state and local governments, and qualified nonprofit organizations or businesses, for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed-upon properties and for stabilization of affected neighborhoods. Allows the use of funds to:

1. establish financing mechanisms for the purchase and redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed-upon properties
2. purchase and rehabilitate such properties
3. establish and operate land banks for them
4. demolish blighted structures (except public housing)
5. redevelop abandoned, foreclosed, demolished, or vacant properties.

• Requires each state to receive at least $20 million of formula funds, all of which shall be used with respect to low and moderate-income individuals and families.
• Requires each state and local government grantee to establish procedures to create preferences for development of affordable rental housing.
• Allows a grantee to use up to 10% to create jobs by establishing and operating a program to maintain eligible neighborhood properties.
• Sets forth Buy American requirements
• Requires all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontracto Source: H.R.1397 13-H1397 on Mar 21, 2013

  Reduce the concentration of wealth & wage inequality.

  Christensen adopted the Progressive Caucus Position Paper:

  Economic inequality is the result of two and a half decades of government policies and rules governing the economy being tilted in favor of large asset owners at the expense of wage earners. Tax policy, trade policy, monetary policy, government regulations and other rules have reflected this pro-investor bias. We propose the introduction or reintroduction of a package of legislative initiatives that will close America’s economic divide and address both income and wealth disparities.

  The Progressive Caucus could take the lead in the formation of a national leadership steering committee to put this dramatic issue before the public through coordinated media campaigns and local education and action forums. The political program should be concerned with:
  • Reducing wage inequality: We are proposing initiatives to both raise the minimum wage floor and prevent the tax code from subsidizing excessive compensation.
  • Asset-building initiatives: The government has historically given land to citizens. Unfortunately, the programs were discriminatory toward people of color and kept a whole generation of people off the asset-building train. We are proposing a universal asset building approach that will dramatically reduce the number of “asset less” households and reduce the disparity of wealth for all Americans.
  • Addressing the over concentration of wealth and power: The concentration of wealth is a problem because it distorts our democracy, destabilizes the economy and erodes our at our social and cultural fabric. Too much concentrated wealth leads to too much concentrated power and begins to undermine our participatory democracy.
  After a decade of economic prosperity, the moral question remains: if we can’t address the persistent economic divide in our nation today, when can we? Source: CPC Position Paper: Income Inequality 99-CPC3 on Nov 11, 1999

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