Homelessness has long ceased to be a housing or poverty issue in our nation. The driving force behind it is drug addiction, followed by mental illness. 75% of people living on the streets are dealing with drug addiction. Coupled with lenient policies and the decriminalization of public camping and drug consumption, we have a crisis of homelessness and crime on our hands.

KCP does not believe more money will solve the problem. On the contrary, it only benefits dirty politicians, phony nonprofits and government programs, street predators, and gangs while rarely reaching the people that need it the most. If nothing else, more money makes homelessness more attractive for all the wrong reasons. We support a tough-love approach to homelessness. We suggest that cities leverage the resources they already have. Empower the organizations and promote policies that have proven to reduce homelessness while discarding those causing more homelessness. We support the involvement of faith-based partners in ensuring that the mental health and addiction services provided are not just clinical but spiritual. We advocate for a strict ban on public camping—our party would also promote a campaign to deter our people from giving money to panhandlers.

Our goal as a party is to advance responsible homeownership while guarding against the abuses that led to the housing collapse of 2008. We must scale back the federal role in the housing market, promote responsibility on borrowers and lenders, and avoid future taxpayer bailouts.

Reforms should provide transparent and prudent underwriting standards and guidelines on predatory lending and acceptable lending practices.

We believe that affordable housing is actually not affordable. It increases taxes for taxpayers. In the section titled ‘Government Assistance,’ we address a one-year program that would offer a housing stipend for low-income individuals who need to be on the program. It is impossible to provide low-income housing in high-income neighborhoods because someone has to pay for it. In most affordable housing buildings, taxes cover what low-income people cannot pay for. In a sense, you charge the rich and give to the poor. The concept may seem honorable, but it is not biblically supported. In the parable of the talents, a man gave five talents to one of his servants, two talents to another, and one talent to a third servant. The first two servants multiplied their talents. The last one buried the one talent he had and did nothing with it. When the man who gave him the talent realized that, he removed it from him and gave it to the servant who had produced the most.

KCP does not desire to take away from those with abundance to give to those who have none. Many organizations offer affordable housing for families, such as Habitat for Humanity. Organizations like these create affordable housing and prepare the family to maintain the home. Habitat For Humanity has been very successful and has built hundreds of homes. Our goal is to bring affordable housing back to an organizational community level and pull taxpayer money out of it as much as possible. Now, Habitat for Humanity does accept government funds as long as those funds have no conditions that violate their principles or limit their ability to proclaim their Christian identity.

We desire to bring the family structure back to American culture. Adoption is a beautiful way to obtain family. There are so many children in the USA who need homes and family. God created a child to be raised by a father and a mother. 

KCP petitions local governments to provide tax incentives to families who adopt. While we do not want the federal government involved in raising a family, we understand the cost of raising a child. These state tax cuts will credit housing expenses for raising a newly adopted child of any age. This will be applied until the child is 18 years old. We believe this will help influence and encourage adoption and take some weight off families embarking on this great responsibility.