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"Texans will no longer rent the picket fence dream. Greg Abbott has sold away the picket fence dream to corporations."

Across Texas, Wall Street private equity firms and hedge funds have bought up tens of thousands of single-family starter homes, outbidding young couples with all-cash offers and converting American neighborhoods into permanent corporate rental fiefdoms. Meanwhile, families who do manage to buy are terrorized by aggressive Homeowners Associations (HOAs) with non-judicial foreclosure powers, seizing families' homesteads over assessment disputes, bureaucratic fines, or cosmetic paint colors.

Under the Picket Fence Protection Act, my administration will enact four non-negotiable statutory pillars:

1. Abolish HOA Home Repossession Powers: Homeowners Associations are completely stripped of foreclosure and repossession powers under the Texas Property Code. Constitutional homestead protections must be inviolable against HOA fines or fees.
2. Ban Corporate Purchases of 1–4 Single-Family Homes: Institutional corporations and private equity funds are strictly prohibited from purchasing existing 1-to-4 unit residential homes. Houses are for families, not Wall Street speculation.
3. Mandatory Corporate Divestment: Corporations must divest from existing single-family rental holdings over an orderly timeline, systematically transferring homes back to Texas working families and first-time buyers.
4. Expedited Permits for Genuine Builders: Corporations that wish to deploy capital in Texas must expand housing supply by building new multi-family apartment communities and developing brand-new single-family subdivisions from raw ground with fast-track state permits.

This housing platform is paired with our Verified County Renter Registry to eliminate squatter scams and grant lawful tenants certified legal standing, enforceable 24-to-48-Hour Habitability Repair SLAs for AC and mold, state-backed Tenant Eviction Defense Navigators, and TCOLE-Sponsored Neighborhood Watch Integration to guarantee community safety.

To fund our schools and raise minimum teacher salaries to $85,000 without property tax spikes, we lower THC retail and repackaging license fees back to the original $150 to empower local entrepreneurs, direct 100% of cannabis sales tax solely and directly to Texas Public Schools, and enact full retroactive expungement of non-violent cannabis records.

Albert Einstein once noted that "all that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual." Yet in Texas today, our public education system has been subordinated to high-stakes standardized testing and skyrocketing college tuition that locks working-class families into intergenerational debt.

The Navarro administration's flagship priority for Texas is the universal integration of Statewide Early College High Schools. Under this policy, every high school junior and senior in Texas will have tuition-free access to dual-enrollment college coursework, graduating simultaneously with a high school diploma and a 60-credit Associate Degree or industry-certified vocational credential.

This plan saves Texas working-class families an average of $40,000 in higher education costs, gives young adults an immediate head start in the workforce, and fuels our state economy with high-skilled, debt-free professionals.

Why are public school cafeterias across Texas serving ultra-processed, frozen mystery food trucked in from distant corporate factories while Texas family ranchers and farmers struggle to maintain their land?

Our Texas Farms to School Lunches initiative (hotschoollunches.net) enacts statutory procurement mandates requiring Texas independent school districts to direct a minimum of 40% of their meal budgets directly to Texas agricultural producers.

When we feed our children fresh, local, nutrient-dense Texas beef, poultry, milk, and seasonal vegetables, student focus and academic performance increase while millions of dollars stay circulating right here in Texas rural communities.

In 2024, I ran an independent grassroots campaign for the United States House of Representatives in Texas Congressional District 22. We mobilized passionate working-class volunteers across Fort Bend and Harris County to gather thousands of voter petition signatures.

We came up just short of the final certified ballot threshold — but that experience provided an invaluable education on how the two-party establishment rigs ballot access laws against independent working-class candidates.

From the 30% petition challenge fallout rate to circulator notarization technicalities, those lessons now form the tactical foundation of our Texas Candidate Runbook (howtorunforoffice.net) and our 2026 Gubernatorial field campaign.

Texas voters approved increased home exemptions and business property tax reductions retroactively. But property tax cuts alone do not solve the structural reality for the 60% of Texans who rent or make under $100,000 per household.

I urge Texans to now focus on the Standard Deduction: our true common ground. As a practicing tax strategist, I advocate for an unshakeable standard deduction of $100,000 for single filers, $150,000 for head of household, and $175,000 for married couples — offset with a $150 flat tax fee to all Schedule C filings of earned and unearned income when applying the standard deduction. For earned income over the standard deduction and under $250,000, rates receive a tax reduction down to 1% — with normal federal income tax brackets resuming only after $250,000 — prioritizing permanent, structural tax relief for working-class and middle-class Texans.

By shifting tax relief away from billionaire loopholes and corporate abatements directly toward working households, we give every family the breathing room to buy groceries, absorb inflation, save for a home, and invest in their children's future.

As a renter who has spent years at the heels of buying a house only to watch prices outpace wages, I know the frustration of dealing with neglected apartments, broken air conditioning, and predatory mandatory fees.

Landlords already have an expedited court eviction process to protect their cash flow. What protects renters? We are proposing a County Registry for Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

My IT colleagues know exactly what this means: applying the ITIL ticketing workflow to habitability. When a tenant files a maintenance ticket for HVAC, toxic mold, or severe pests, the county ticketing clock starts ticking. If repairs aren't completed within statutory windows, rent escrow and penalties kick in automatically. If we pay our rent on time, landlords must fix essentials on time.