Alcee Hastings: “There is no question but what that is true, if we were to add to that the mortgage deduction that I benefit from in…”

“There is no question but what that is true, if we were to add to that the mortgage deduction that I benefit from in developing my interests in a home, or any number of aspects of the government's involvement in allowing for the development. But what I was trying to get across is it is not only homes. We insure the homes of millionaires with their mortgages. There is nothing wrong with that. Why, then, should there not be a goal that we want to make sure that every American understands that we as policymakers favor their right to have a safe and inhabitable house, and that the public and the private sector, local and Federal and State, ought to participate as a goal to ensure that? I thought that is what I was here about.”