HOUSING AFFORDABILITY

The problem: Too many working families are stretched thin with high rents and unaffordable mortgages.

What we need: A bigger housing supply that brings down the cost of rent and incentivizes developers to build homes for the people that live and work here, not for homes to sit empty or become future vacation homes.

How we can achieve that: At the county level designate what neighborhoods can have vacation homes and which cannot to meet the housing needs of the region, and tax empty homes that are intended to house people year-round to incentivize investors to sell or rent these homes and developers to build new homes at the price and square footage target that will guarantee these homes sell fast to the people that live and work here. 

HEALTHCARE ACCESSIBILITY

The problem: Too many people are uninsured and one emergency room visit away from potentially going bankrupt. 

What we need: Basic health insurance for all that covers 100% preventive healthcare at no cost and everything else a high deductible protection layer that prevents people from going bankrupt. 

How we can achieve that: Have the federal government operate as a baseline insurance carrier that private insurance carriers can build on top of to shorten the high deductible gap the basic government insurance layer won't provide. This would reduce the country's cost of healthcare as everyone would have health insurance and employer contributions to healthcare would also decrease as private insurance layers that build on top of the country's base layer would be significantly lower. 

INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE

The problem: Lack of risk-based regulations that can protect vulnerable communities and delicate environment ecosystems from catastrophic infrastructure failures, such as what happened with the 2025 Moss Landing Vistra Power Plant Fire. 

What we need: A strong set of risk-based infrastructure regulations that assess the scale of infrastructure projects and the corresponding safety mechanisms appropriate for operating in delicate environment ecosystems and in close proximity to vulnerable populations.

How we can achieve that: Require probabilistic hazard analyzes and adequate containment failure designs that suppress fires and capture potential thermal runaway. This will likely move us away from large high-risk energy infrastructure projects and into low-risk small-scale energy infrastructure projects that reduce the risk of catastrophic failures and strengthen energy resilience. It will also move us away from off-shore drilling and into finding land-based alternatives in low-risk environments that can support our energy independence without compromising the health of our ocean ecosystem and its direct impact on our health and wellbeing.