Our residents deserve better. They deserve action.

I am here once again, obviously, to talk about how we can protect our neighbors from flooding and contamination in the water.

I refuse to accept this as our new normal.

Our communities, as you all know, are on the front lines of the climate crisis, and these floods are only continuing to get worse.

Our communities are on the front lines of the climate crisis, and these floods are only going to continue to get worse and more frequent.

We need to move with urgency.

Before government intervention, many of the foundational elements of our housing finance system, like the secondary mortgage market, simply didn't exist.

the housing crisis is real.

I see it where Michigan lost more Black homeownership than any other State in the country.

But when Congress provides housing assistance to only one out of four eligible households, while saddling public housing with a $70-billion capital backlog, we must be honest with ourselves about where the problem lies.

Our Federal subsidies are, 'necessary to fill the gap between what the lowest-income people can afford to pay and the cost of developing operational rental homes.'