The biggest challenge young people have getting into agriculture is availability of land and availability of credit.
Tina Smith
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Tina Elizabeth Smith is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Minnesota since January 3, 2018. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, she has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and economic equity during her time in office. Smith previously served as the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota from 2015 to 2018, where she worked on initiatives to improve access to healthcare and support for families and children.
I would also like to thank Senator Rounds for his partnership on the Rural Housing Reform legislation that we announced this morning.
If you do not have a safe, affordable place to live, nothing else in your life works, not your job, or your education, or your health.
We held two hearings together in this Subcommittee, and then we also sought comments from the public.
Thank you so much to you and your staff for working together with us on today's hearing.
We have a serious shortage of housing in this country, especially in rural communities.
We need to make sure that whether it is the reference prices in there or other triggers that reflect today's circumstance.
We need to make sure that we are developing markets and that we are developing a marketplace that creates that future for beginning farmers.
We have a serious shortage of housing in this country, especially in rural communities.
We held two hearings together in this Subcommittee, and then we also sought comments from the public.





