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Robert Tait in Washington

AOC introduces legislation for low-cost housing programme backed by US funding

AOC at the mic.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during the first day of Democratic national convention, on 19 August, in Chicago. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive Congress member for New York, has introduced legislation aimed at establishing an ambitious social housing programme that would see millions of new homes being built with US government funding.

With Tina Smith, a Democratic senator for Minnesota, Ocasio-Cortez has introduced the Homes Act in the House of Representatives to address what they call a “housing crisis” that has left millions of low-income people unable to find rental accommodation they can afford. Smith has introduced the proposed legislation in the Senate.

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