Working families in every American city and town — particularly millennials and African American and Hispanic individuals and families — are denied one of the most effective ways to create equity and achieve stability that an affordable single-family home provides.

That's why we are calling for funding an additional one million affordable homes, not in 10 years, but in five years, to be included in the pending infrastructure bill.

In fact, in July 2020, 52% of Americans ages 18 to 29 were living with their parents, up 5% from before the pandemic.

We have seen a housing success story in East Brooklyn that proves what is possible when critical masses of affordable homes are built in once-devastated communities.

We will never correct the extreme and worsening housing deficit, or the wealth gap, if we don't accelerate and expand the construction of affordable single-family homes in our nation.