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Healthy communities are valuable communities—and valuable communities are good for the housing market and regional commerce. MIBOR understands that many factors affect economic vitality and community wealth, including transportation, schools, planning and zoning, infrastructure, taxation, housing, crime, the environment and recreation. With that in mind, MIBOR works to inform policy makers on our members' views on these critical issues through one-on-one meetings, public hearings and large-scale events like the Central Indiana Housing Summit.

Through the MIBOR Political Action Committee (MPAC), MIBOR works to support candidates for public office that share similar positions on beliefs, including:

Providing housing opportunity and choice by supporting market-driven housing approaches that encourage a wide-range of urban, suburban and rural housing choices at all price levels.

Building better communities by working to ensure a variety of housing choices, good schools, low crime, quality public services, efficient transportation systems, ample recreation and park areas, open space, strong employment base and an economically viable commercial sector.

Protecting the environment by considering policies and programs that aid the control of pollution; provide for programs that encourage preservation of natural resources, significant lands and properties of historical significance; and further encourage, through incentives, the protection of endangered species, aquifers, rivers/streams, agricultural lands, wetlands, scenic vistas, natural areas and open space.

Protecting private property rights by ensuring that every individual has the right to acquire and use real property with confidence and certainty that its value will not be unduly diminished by governmental action without just compensation or consent by the owner.

Implementing fair and reasonable public sector fiscal measures to adequately provide for the infrastructure needs of communities resulting from growth, by supporting the adoption of balanced, fair, equitable and incentive-based approaches to finance and pay for the development, expansion and maintenance of roads, schools, water and sewer facilities.