When Kendrick was in high school, he had to help his mother find a place that would let their family stay there using their Section 8 voucher. It quickly dawned upon him that this was not a happy, let’s go look at all the homes in our mind and see which one best fits our needs process. His mother told him that they had a certain amount of time to find a place that would let them use their voucher before they lost it. Unfortunately, they did lose their voucher for that very reason. Kendrick remembers being upset at everything because he felt it was unfair that they had the money, but still could not have access to housing because of a provider's discriminatory stance on section 8 voucher holders.

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A native of Senate District 41, Kendrick has witnessed countless long-term residents in our historic affordable communities move because of the lack of preservation policies in our community. This contributes to the growing public health crisis that many communities in district two find themselves at the epicenter of. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg region suffers from socioeconomic segregation. This means that based upon the demographic profile of a household determines the quality of life they are assigned.  Unfortunately, race, income and education all play a role in determining this. Call it whatever, but there are three common factors that define class – education, income, and occupation. As someone who comes from a family that did not acquire high school diplomas and worked predominately in the leisure and hospitality industry as associates, Kendrick knows first hand about the quality of life experience for working families in Senate District 41.

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As a State Senator, Kendrick In order to create more triumphant communities and deflate the price of the Charlotte housing market, the City of Charlotte must outpace the building of housing units and the creation of housing options juxtaposed to that of the amount of units we need to house per income level per year. Once activity begins to occur in the market, housing demand will increase. This demand can only be driven by a housing market that embraces the ability for housing providers to offer an array of housing options at diverse price points. As demand increases and we continue to outpace the construction of housing with different options, the price of housing will begin to consolidate and enter a sustained period of deflation. This macroeconomic solution is what I refer to as Housing for All. In the end we would have increased the total revenue of our housing market.