Housing policy work
What they say
In the October 1 debate, James said she had fought every year on affordable housing policies, including bipartisan work, and pointed to protections for mobile-home residents.
What the record shows ·
Separate from her mobile-home bills, James was a named sponsor of HF 2610 on March 5, 2020, proposing a rise in the annual workforce-housing tax-credit allocation ceiling from $25 million to $30 million. On April 10, 2023 she was among the sponsors of HF 693, proposing $50 million for qualifying homeowners' exterior repairs, and HF 697, proposing a low-income housing tax credit and larger first-time homebuyer savings deductions. The three bills' histories record introduction and committee referral, without passage or enactment. Other housing records include the cross-party 2020 mobile-home HF 2351, her 2021 eviction/foreclosure-prevention HF 657 proposal, her final vote for the 2022 mobile-home law HF 2562, and mobile-home proposals in 2024 and 2025. The April 5, 2022 journal records her among the 60 final-passage ayes on HF 2562, separate from her vote against its preceding amendment; the history records signature on May 17, 2022.
Why there is no assessment here
Specific affordable-housing actions for 2019 and 2026 were not established from the captured sponsor indexes. The exact every-year assertion remains unverified without inferring that other advocacy was absent.
Limit: These records establish repeated work in 2020-2025 and specific cross-party participation, not homes built, delivered repair grants, lower rents or cross-party work in each year. Introduced bills and the enacted 2022 mobile-home law remain separate.