Elizabeth Warren talks housing, voting rights, and more in Selma visit

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Pastor Leodis Strong walks with Sen. Elizabeth Warren outside Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Ala., on Tuesday, March 19, 2019. (Photo: Jake Crandall/ Advertiser)


Brian Lyman, Montgomery Advertiser Published 11:15 a.m. CT March 19, 2019 | Updated 5:11 p.m. CT March 19, 2019

Elizabeth Warren talked about many things in Selma on Tuesday, including voting rights. But she focused on a housing plan she said would help communities address their particular needs.

“This is not a one-size-fits-all bill,” the Democratic presidential candidate and Massachusetts senator said in a phone interview with the Advertiser before touring Selma on Tuesday. “The idea is to push money down to the community level so that the individual housing needs of a community are met. This isn’t about Washington dictating from far off that everyone needs a certain kind of housing or every community needs a certain kind of approach.”

Warren highlighted the housing plan during an early afternoon tour of Selma that took her from Brown Chapel, where civil rights activists gathered before and after “Bloody Sunday” on March 7, 1965, to the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where civil rights activists were attacked that day.

The senator proposes spending $500 billion over 10 years to build and rehabilitate affordable housing units, through a combination of direct federal investments and incentives for private developers and making it easier for low and middle-income families to get access to mortgages. Warren proposes paying for the program by lowering the threshold on the federal estate tax from $22 million to $7 million.

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