"What a welcome change. I am overjoyed to see that we have someone dedicated to exacting housing justice back at the helm of the Department of Housing and Urban Development."
"President Biden... has proposed a budget and a Build Back Better Plan which increases such efforts and includes billions in funding to address the public housing repair backlog and millions to remove ..."
"Statement of Hon. Ayanna Pressley, a Representative in Congress from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, June 24, 2021"
"It is time we recognize and treat structural racism and police brutality through a public health lens when we can."
"The Anti-Racism in Public Health Act is a critical bill introduced by my colleagues, Representatives Ayanna Pressley and Barbara Lee."
"Many of my colleagues today have really proved that our greatest deficit as a nation is not one of resource, but of empathy."
"Our greatest wealth as a nation is the health of our people, and a meaningful, universal, and permanent paid leave policy is about the health of our people, about the stabilization of our families."
"Transforming the Housing Choice Voucher Program into an entitlement program, similar to Medicare or Medicaid, is the bold, transformative, and necessary change that my constituents need right now."
"What impacts would universal vouchers have for helping marginalized populations avoid homelessness and criminalization?"
"Thank you for your leadership in this fight to hold the Sackler family accountable."
"The billions of dollars they raked in by exploiting opioid addiction should be reinvested in those whose lives were decimated."
"They are predators. They are cowards, plain and simple."