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It is not at all unusual in our communities to have hundreds, thousands of people paying 60, 70 percent of their income in rent. It is a crisis. And we need a budget that addresses it.

It appears you are merging the capital fund, and that the operating fund, but then you are also cutting the operating fund by 25 percent

The tradeoffs in this budget proposal, just don't make sense to me

I hope it is an aberration and would appreciate whatever steps you need to take to correct this.

Heavily redacted, heavily redacted reports that made it impossible to make any sense of it.

Delaying this project will only raise costs in the long term, because we have to get it done.

I want to be clear: This is a national project with national benefits.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I must say, President Fry, your cataloging of the needs of the northeast corridor is very sobering.

We need to make sure HUD is part of the broader conversation and can play a constructive role in mitigating these consequences.

How do opportunity zones compensate for any of that? And how does the money flow?

We opposed those proposed cuts, as you know, last year.

Thank you, Mr. Secretary.

I think it would be very helpful if you would finalize those thoughts in a more formal way and give us a basis for future collaboration.

We are talking $50 billion in maintenance needs. And I just reiterate, this isn't an indication of program failure.

What I think isn't credible is simply choking off the funding for existing public housing, both operating and capital.

I think that is a much better way to proceed than the way that we have been doing it in the past.

That maintenance cost continues to go up.