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==Attending==
* Mars Bale
* Lily Boyt
* Seth
==Agenda==
* Continue Discussions on Housing and Transit
* Continue Discussions on Clean Air
* Open Floor
==Discussion==
=== Housing and Transit ===
* Boyt asked that something to support non-rail transit be added.
The following was sent by a vote of 3-0 to the PNC with the intent for it to be sent back to Platform with feedback.

'''Housing & Transit'''

Housing is a human right. This means that people should be secure in their homes free from the threat of eviction or excessive taxes. People should have access to all utilities required for life, including: Water, electricity, and high speed internet, services which millions of Americans currently lack. Housing must be affordable. High costs of housing clashing with basic needs must be resolved. Urban housing must be habitable and located in a location close to places of work, health-care facilities, schools, and other facilities. A cheap house in a food desert hours away from the nearest hospital should not be lauded as affordable or accessible. As a start for recognizing this right we propose the following:

* Establishing a right to decent housing with federal legislation.
* Ending no-cause evictions and holdover evictions.
* Establishing a federal right to counsel for tenants.
* Giving tenants and qualified housing nonprofits the right of first refusal when their unit is sold. (including mobile home parks)
* Prohibiting the algorithmic price fixing of rents.
* Disallow credit checks in renting.
* Fully funding the housing choice program.
* Providing funding for a housing first model for homelessness at a federal level.
* Further prohibiting the ability of landlords to illegally discriminate by requiring a detailed report to an applicant denied for a rental, mortgage, home loan application, or similar.

We must dramatically rethink America's 20th century experiment in low-density land use and return to human centered, livable cities. We have robbed generations of Americans of their childhoods by forcing everyone into a car including those unable to drive. We have polluted our cities by enshrining cars as the only reliable means of transportation. We have destroyed the formerly thriving passenger rail industry through a trillion dollar subsidy to the national highway system. We will:

* Restructure residential zoning categories to allow for all types of housing, including ADUs, to be built in areas zoned for residential.
* Replace property taxes at all levels with revenue neutral land value taxes to promote productive development.
* Provide Federal funding to support capital projects & operating expenses for new and existing metro, lightrail and streetcar systems.
* Nationalize, electrify, and modernize railroad infrastructure while allowing existing rail companies to remain private operators.
* Construct a nation wide high speed passenger rail system with expedited environmental review and minimal external contractors.

=== Clean Air===
* no substantive discussion or alterations
==Next Meeting==
* Continue discussions of Housing & Transit
* Continue discussions on Clean Air
* Healthcare?

[[Category: Platform Minutes]]

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