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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

Spending policies, I think, have exacerbated an already unaffordable housing market.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

the cost of post-secondary education has gone--is pricing itself out of the market.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

When I do visit all 92 counties in our State, by far the issue I hear even above and beyond rural broadband, affordable housing, would be workforce.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

I challenge employers throughout the country to make sure to take that into consideration.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

we need more of them to fill that high demand, very high pay niche.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

I think the solutions to all of these are probably left best to the laboratory of the states.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

I mean, that just seems outrageously high as a median, and that is actually higher than what the median is across the country.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

Under the Biden Administration, Americans are less able to afford a home than practically any other time in our history.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

I think that is the wrong way to accomplish maybe a goal that is noble to help those that need help affording a place to live, but not like that.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

Federal bureaucrats should not step in the way. We must do more to address federal regulatory burdens.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

When I do visit all 92 counties in our State, by far the issue I hear even above and beyond rural broadband, affordable housing, would be workforce.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

the cost of post-secondary education has gone--is pricing itself out of the market.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

I want to give a shout out to a company in Indiana, the Cook Medical Group, who does medical device manufacturing as its business, but it has taken on trying to make affordable housing something that they are going to try to make.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

I do look forward--sometimes we are at odds in terms of what we should do, but there is always practical legislation in the middle, and I would hope that we can have those conversations that get us there.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

Spending policies, I think, have exacerbated an already unaffordable housing market.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

Under the Biden Administration, Americans are less able to afford a home than practically any other time in our history.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

More housing needs to be built in order to lower prices.

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Mike Braun
@mikebraun· Republican · IN· Jul 20, 2023

Can you cite a couple of the key regulations that drive costs up? And generally, they are always well intended, but then can work at cross-purposes for the affordability factor.

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