Reggie believes housing is a human right. That’s why in the Assembly, Reggie’s fought to invest over $4 billion towards affordable housing construction and expanded renters’ protections. But while the State Legislature has passed a number of measures to help address our state’s affordable housing crisis, the cost of living continues to rise sharply. Gentrification has also been a complicated and silent killer in the 10th District that has displaced thousands of families and small businesses in the Los Angeles area. And now, with COVID-19 protections ending, thousands of Angelenos are facing the anxiety of eviction or foreclosure. It’s clear far more needs to be done.

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While housing insecurity is a complicated, multifaceted problem, Reggie will be an unrelenting fighter for renters’ rights, including amending Costa-Hawkins to enable city governments to enact rent freezes, heighten protections for renters, and prosecute shady landlords who unjustly evict their tenants. 

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In order to ensure everyone Angeleno can access affordable housing, Reggie also supports a wide variety of measures to accelerate affordable housing production and slow rising rents by canceling rents during COVID, stopping unjust evictions, financing affordable housing projects for homeless and low-income populations, holding landlords accountable who exploit their tenants, and streamlining permitting and approval processes, and offering a density bonus to 100% of affordable housing developments, as well as:

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• Supported a $4 billion investment in affordable housing construction, including $1 billion for veterans’ housing.

• Supported a 2020 bill to make safe, decent, and affordable housing a right for every Californian.

• Fought to secure $500 million to expand the Low Income Housing Tax Credit in the 2019-2020 state budget.

• Helped secure an eviction moratorium to keep working families in their homes during the COVID-19 crisis.

• Supported a 2019 law that prevents landlords from increasing rent by more than 5% annually and provides “just cause” eviction protections to tenants throughout California.

• Launched a plan to combat gentrification centered around educating South LA families and small businesses on how to keep their land and homes in the district.​