Build more; protect renters

Housing & renters

El-Sayed supports a large increase in housing construction, a federal renters’ bill of rights, and restrictions on corporate speculation in homes.

Building affordable housing all over the country.

WHAT HE HAS SAID

• Calls for a building boom through massive investment in new housing and streamlining local regulations that make it too hard to build.
• Wants to ban large corporations that speculate on housing stock from owning homes at all.
• Supports federal legislation banning algorithmic rental price-fixing software that lets corporate landlords collude to raise rent.
• Wants Big Tech short-term rental platforms like Airbnb and VRBO to pay special housing-dislocation fees for the stock they occupy.
• Supports a federal renter bill of rights that protects renters from exploitation and unfair evictions and clarifies landlord obligations nationwide.

Primary sources

• Read the campaign position — Abdul for U.S. Senate

Last reviewed 2026-08-19.