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Ayanna Pressley: “And yet in the face of this blatant deterioration of American families and of the housing market, we find ourselves…”

On the recordApril 1, 2019
And yet in the face of this blatant deterioration of American families and of the housing market, we find ourselves stuck with an Administration that deliberately works to reinstate the very housing discriminations that we sought to dismantle through the 1968 Fair Housing Act.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Pressley criticizes the current Administration for reversing progress on housing discrimination.

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