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s0nicfan posted...

Has she proposed any sort of concrete legislation that addresses this issue with any evidence-based efficacy?

Yes.

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2019/9/27/aoc-amp-the-progressive-consensus-on-housing

On Wednesday, Congresswoman and progressive vanguard Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released her A Place to Prosper Act, a bold plan to restructure the U.S. housing system. As part of her A Just Society package, AOC lays out a vision that would take our country closer to manifesting housing as a human right. Her proposal also encapsulates the emergent progressive consensus on housing: protect tenants, regulate landlords, abolish exclusionary zoning, and build more homes outside the private market. AOC's bill is the product of collaboration with the Center for Popular Democracy and their housing justice network, and closely follows their A Home to Thrive plan.

AOCs plan (which well shorthand to A Place to Prosper) builds off three cornerstones:

A nationwide cap on rent increases and ban on no-cause evictions (small landlords who rent 5 or fewer homes are exempted), along with new funding for legal counsel for evicted tenants.

Strict regulations on landlords, banning them from refusing to rent to tenants because they receive public assistance (one way that landlords currently often legally discriminate) and requiring transparency for large landlords who rent 100 or more homes on rent prices, evictions, fees charged, lease agreements, ownership, and instances of violations they have committed

Withholding federal highway funds from localities using exclusionary zoning to prevent housing affordability and integration, while offering additional funds to localities that encourage the development of affordable housing.

AOCs plan also includes other important elements, such as funding for lead abatement, but the three cornerstones above get to the heart of the new progressive consensus on how to solve the housing crisis and we should look at each more closely to see how.

https://truthout.org/articles/aoc-sanders-are-reintroducing-their-green-new-deal-for-public-housing-bill/

It would also remove limitations on building more public housing as set by the Faircloth Amendment, which sets strict limits on how much affordable housing can be built.