ARDELIA BELIEVES IN

Housing & Healthcare as Foundational Systems

Housing, healthcare, and mental health support are the bare minimum foundations of a functioning county. While we already have systems in place we need to ensure they lead to stability by design. 

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My plan includes incentivizing local home ownership and expanding community land trusts, while holding absentee landlords accountable for neglect and vacancy. Expanding transitional housing for families experiencing homelessness and veterans, using existing HUD-VASH and Continuum of Care programs to restore dignity and workforce readiness.

We must decouple health care from employment so job loss, recovery, or care-giving doesn't become a collapse point. We need to treat reentry, recovery, and homelessness as workforce restoration points, not life sentences. I also support fully integrating mental health care into all federally funded housing and support programs, from public schools to transitional housing to Medicaid expansion.