which we all know is a very challenged district, as the third-poorest congressional district in the country, but also with the most resilient people.
Rashida Tlaib
The Public Record
I want to thank you so much, Chairman Green, and, of course, our incredible Financial Services Committee Chairwoman, Maxine Waters, for agreeing to bring Congress to Detroit.
the one issue that came up during the tour, Ted, is specifically around this move for community groups, who are so tired of trying to deal with the banks or trying to get the Federal Government to do something, that they are now creating…
Water bills are being used as a tool to create an encumbrance, to take property.
I have been really a big critic of just not feeling like the enforcement is there.
The majority of loans are still going to white families who are moving into Detroit versus Black families.
Thank you. So right now, I know about 65,000 foreclosures--this is for you, Ted--65,000 properties in foreclosure in 2019.
We cannot have this empirically proven, unconstitutional tax assessment and continue to foreclose on people as if the problem is they don't want to pay.





