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Barney Frank: “Taking back my time, I would agree with that if we didn't have a waiver in there, if we didn't have a variety of ways of…”

On the recordJanuary 17, 2008
Taking back my time, I would agree with that if we didn't have a waiver in there, if we didn't have a variety of ways of meeting the one-for-one replacement. It is not all public housing. In fact, one of the things I plan to do in future legislation in cooperation with my colleagues is to go to some of the other housing programs we may have, maybe the Low Income Housing Fund or others, and give a preference to housing authorities who have that HOPE VI obligation. So, in other words, there would be a wide variety of ways in which they could replace the housing, not simply by public housing, because, I agree, that would be self-defeating.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Discussing housing policy and the replacement of public housing during a legislative session.

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