"Is there anything that HUD can do to end this? Can HUD consider withholding CDBG funds to localities that over-assess property tax at such a high rate, in violation of the Fair Housing Act?"
"I just want to thank you so much for including the Restoring Communities Left Behind Act that Congresswoman Kaptur and I are championing in addressing tax foreclosure but also home improvement in neig..."
"the climate crisis is here. We need to do everything we can in our power and our purview to really, truly reduce our carbon footprint"
"We all know that cryptocurrency like Bitcoin currently consumes enough energy to power a small nation."
"I think moving it from 7 to 4 years can directly, dramatically, help our communities."
"I have seen it firsthand growing up in southwest Detroit."
"So, when we talk about structural racism and we talk about this hearing, we have to really talk about the human impacts of what this means."
"Children can't learn if they are hungry. Well, I also believe that children can't learn if they can't breathe."
"Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. I so appreciate this hearing because credit scoring has been something that impacts my community directly, as the third-poorest congressional district in the country."
"It is just wrong."
"That is a form of structural racism. If you look at who is impacted, it is low-income communities."