ARDELIA BELIEVES IN

Housing & Healthcare as Foundational Systems

Housing, healthcare, and mental health support are not optional benefits- they are the minimum foundations of a functioning country. When these systems fail, families fall into crisis not because they made bad choices, but because instability is built into the design.

My approach prioritizes stability by design, not crisis response after the damage is done.

I support incentivizing local homeownership, expanding community land trusts, and holding absentee landlords accountable for neglect and long-term vacancy. I will push to expand transitional housing for families experiencing homelessness and veterans, using and strengthening existing federal programs like HUD-VASH and Continuum of Care, with a focus on dignity, workforce readiness, and permanent pathways out of homelessness.

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Healthcare must follow the person, not the paycheck.
I support expanding Medicaid to provide universal baseline health coverage, ensuring no family loses access to care because of job loss, caregiving responsibilities, recovery, or economic disruption. Healthcare should stabilize people through transition, not punish them for it. Medicaid should function as a guaranteed floor, not a last resort.

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We must also fully integrate mental health care into federally funded housing, education, and workforce programs from public schools to reentry services to transitional housing. Recovery, reentry, and homelessness should be treated as restoration points, not life sentences.

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A nation that forces people to choose between health, housing, and survival is not efficient, it is fragile. I am running to rebuild systems that make stability possible, not exceptional.