We fully support the bills introduced by Congressmembers Clarke and Long.
The historical roots of discrimination in broadcasting actually started decades ago.
The ownership structure that some of the African American broadcasters enjoy doesn't just turn on vagaries of how long the license lasts.
It is time for Congress, and I hope in a bipartisan manner, to do its part to ensure that women and minorities have equal access to the owne...
Thank you very much for your willingness to put this up for a hearing today.
I guess I am registering the view that direct funding is not the total solution here.
I am, naturally, acutely aware of the shortfalls in housing funding across virtually all HUD accounts.
I think particularly of addressing gentrification, the kind of efforts we make in our cities to identify tracts of land to encourage develop...
Thank you for organizing this important hearing on the impact of federal dollars on our states and localities.
We completely support Congressman Butterfield's bill to bring the tax certificate back.
The direct funding is important, and we have block grants, of course, like CDBG and HOME.
I am extremely concerned that as we look at this issue that we have to come together in a bipartisan way to figure this out.
I am here to say that if we only focus on the fact that they are not getting it right with facial recognition, we have missed the whole argu...
There have been a number of claims in public and even maybe implications in some of the statements by Members today that there was a lack of...
these tax credits have been a very potent instrument for encouraging diverse development.
The bill would reinstate and expand the Tax Certificate Program at the FCC and increase the Commission's ownership reporting requirements.
If we want to fight inequality, let's build more housing so that low-income Americans have the chance to live in high-opportunity cities whe...
Enacting counterproductive regulatory and zoning laws which decrease the amount of housing that can be built causes housing costs to skyrock...
