David Price

Access to stable and affordable housing has broad positive impacts. It leads to better health, better education outcomes, higher lifetime earnings, especially for children.

I must say, President Fry, your cataloging of the needs of the northeast corridor is very sobering.

Let me turn, as promised, to housing for the elderly and housing for the disabled.

Thank you, Mr. Secretary.

Opportunity zones? Okay. Does that somehow compensate for everything I have said here this morning?

We need to make sure HUD is part of the broader conversation and can play a constructive role in mitigating these consequences.

For years nearly all of HUD's affordable housing and community development programs have been underfunded compared to demonstrated need.

Yet today, in no state in this country, can a person working full-time at the Federal minimum wage afford a two-bedroom apartment at the fair market rent.

I always want to register my serious concern with the Department's so-called rent reforms, which would essentially shift HUD program costs on to residents.

I hope it is an aberration and would appreciate whatever steps you need to take to correct this.

Public office is a public trust. Even the appearance of impropriety can severely damage our institution.

90 percent of public housing households are either elderly or had disabilities, they worked or had recently worked, or were subject to work requirements through another program.

I want to once again register my concerns with the Administration's so called rent reforms.

the tradeoffs in this budget proposal, just don't make sense to me

Well, I know my time has expired, but I must say, of course we all want--we all want to serve more people, we all want to make the most of limited resources, but if in the name of that, we are squeezing, just mercilessly squeezing the…

What I think isn't credible is simply choking off the funding for existing public housing, both operating and capital.

the problem of homelessness and of under-resourcing of housing support is a problem that our country must simply come to grips with more adequately.

We have made headway, as the Chairman says, on most of these items in 2017, 2018 by virtue of bipartisan budget agreements.

Heavily redacted, heavily redacted reports that made it impossible to make any sense of it.

Delaying this project will only raise costs in the long term, because we have to get it done.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I think that is a much better way to proceed than the way that we have been doing it in the past.

We have the sense, justified I think, that most if not all HUD accounts have long since been under resourced.

I agree and we are all in on this disaster relief and the way we need to support one another.

There is a clear need for the capital advances, and for the projects that that would fund.