Bill Clinton: “Well, one of the things that we found out and that Henry Cisneros talked to me a lot about was that years after the…”

“Well, one of the things that we found out and that Henry Cisneros talked to me a lot about was that years after the natural disasters that struck the Bay Area in northern California and in southern Florida, there are still these ghost towns, and communities are still suffering. Now it's more expensive to fix it than if we'd done it right away. And so, I thought maybe what I would do is let Secretary Cisneros just talk a little bit about what he's been working with you, Senator Feinstein, Senator Boxer, and the mayors and the other members of your delegation on. [Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros explained that $225 million will be made available through the Community Development Block Grant Program to help rebuild abandoned neighborhoods.]”