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Rashida Tlaib: I personally feel like when we see the loss of affordable housing in a city like mine, it is because we legalized this…

On the recordJune 8, 2021
I personally feel like when we see the loss of affordable housing in a city like mine, it is because we legalized this kind of speculation.
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Rashida Tlaib
Democratic · Michigan

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Tlaib expresses concern over housing speculation leading to loss of affordable housing.

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