Manny's position
Across Southern Nevada, rising housing costs are putting increasing pressure on working families, seniors, and young professionals. The median home price has climbed to nearly $490,000, making homeownership more difficult for many residents striving to build stability and long-term security.
Clark County has launched housing initiatives, but demand continues to outpace supply. To truly improve affordability, the focus must be on accelerating results and increasing the number of homes available at attainable price points.
Manny Kess will prioritize expanding housing supply, cutting unnecessary delays that drive construction costs, and measuring success by how many homes are actually built and occupied each year. Programs that demonstrate real impact will be expanded. Those that fall short will be improved to ensure public dollars are delivering meaningful outcomes.
Affordability is not just about policy — it's about ensuring families can live, work, and thrive in the community they call home.
The plan, in five actions
- Measure success in homes built and occupied — per year. Not "permits issued." Not "approvals granted." Not "units in the pipeline." Real homes, real people, real keys in real doors. Published every year, by district.
- Cut the delay tax on construction. Every week a shovel-ready project sits in permit review is a week the cost grows. Manny will press the County to publish median permit-to-approval times and to set reduction targets. Faster legal approvals mean lower per-unit costs — and that savings flows to renters and buyers.
- Expand programs that work; fix the ones that don't. Clark County's Welcome Home Community Housing Fund put $20 million in March 2026 toward lowering rents at 10 affordable-housing complexes — 530 units. Programs like that, if they deliver, should be expanded. Programs that don't should be fixed or sunset.
- Hold the line on cost drivers. Large investors own about 11% of single-family rentals in Las Vegas, compared with 3% nationally. Manny will support land-use policies that give homebuyers and small landlords a fair chance — without surrendering the County's basic obligation to grow supply.
- Be honest about the shortfall. Nevada is short more than 100,000 units for households at or below 50 percent of area median income. Only 16 affordable rental units exist per 100 extremely-low-income households statewide. The County alone can't close that gap — but it can stop adding to it.
Why this matters in District E
Sunrise Manor's median household income is around $58,000. Eighteen percent of Sunrise Manor families live below the poverty line. When the cost of housing rises faster than wages, this district is hit harder than almost any other in Clark County. Families on the edge are pushed off it.
What this is not
It's not a promise to crash the housing market. It's not a vow that everyone will own a single-family home on a quarter-acre. It's a commitment to push hard for supply at attainable prices — and to count the houses, not the ribbon-cuttings.
What Manny will not support
- Rent-control schemes that history shows reduce supply over time.
- Approvals processes that take years longer than they should.
- Vague "affordable housing" programs without per-unit cost transparency.
- Self-congratulatory metrics that count plans instead of homes.