How can I work with people who won't even protect voting rights for all of the people in this country?

narrow [ . . . ] the racial home ownership gap.

The objective of this program is to help address the racial wealth and home ownership gaps.

In America today, our ZIP Code preordains our access to jobs, homeownership, affordable rent, and a child's access to quality education.

We must ensure that every family in America has access to the communities of their choice.

It is going to take courage and it is going to take pressure on the locals and all of the homeowners' associations.

I said, 'No, we are going to build more affordable housing in the National Housing Trust Fund.'

Communities across this country continue to use zoning and local control as a dog whistle to preserve the racial residential segregation.

The government created this discrimination, and we have the opportunity to undo it.

Working families and retirees, whose hard-earned savings helped fuel the capital markets, were ignored.

Trump's SEC impacted Regulation Best Interest that brokers loved and investors hated.

During the Trump Administration, the Commission provided minimal oversight and eliminated key protections for investors.

Trump's SEC approved proxy adviser and proxy access rules that corporate executives loved and shareholders roundly rejected.

Enforcement actions against Wall Street fell to historic lows.

Even though the financial sector's growth exploded, the number of SEC staff under Trump was reduced by 5 percent.

we need to do everything we can to encourage that in every way that we can.

I would just add that we have had vaccine mandates in our country for many years.

How do we reconcile that we have so many people who are unvaccinated?

this business of mergers without real community involvement has to stop.

It is just absolutely necessary that they have the staffing, that they have the funding that's needed.

I don't know if it's proper for me to ask you, having stated what you've stated, that do you believe that mandating vaccinations throughout our society would help to defeat this coronavirus that we're confronted with, this pandemic?

I am always amazed that we have so many entities in L.A. County who are following the advice.

It is long past time to eliminate rules like this.

I expect our committee to be in the forefront of getting rid of these discriminatory policies in not only housing and banking, but in other areas over which we have some oversight.

If government acts, we can get rid of this systemic discrimination in so many different ways.