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Treat housing scarcity as an infrastructure failure by speeding permitting, legalizing supply, scaling factory-built homes, funding utilities, and preserving hazard safeguards.
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Jul 6, 2026
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The specific delta between this position and the current mainstream approaches of both major parties.
Democrats often lead with affordable-housing subsidies, tenant protection, fair housing, and public investment. Republicans often lead with deregulation, homeownership, private construction, and objections to federal mandates. Both frames miss the build-system problem when used alone. Subsidies lose force when local rules make units illegal or slow. Deregulation loses legitimacy when it ignores displacement, infrastructure, and hazard risk.
The Innovation Party's delta is throughput with safeguards. Legalize more housing, publish the bottlenecks, digitize and bound the process, fund capacity, scale factory-built methods, and protect people from displacement and unsafe siting. The position is not "Washington should zone every block." It is that federal money should stop rewarding local systems that make housing needlessly impossible to build.
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