"Access to stable and affordable housing has broad positive impacts. It leads to better health, better education outcomes, higher lifetime earnings, especially for children."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
"Well, thank you Mr. Chairman. Madam Secretary, I want to wrap up also with some questions..."
"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."
"Delaying this project will only raise costs in the long term, because we have to get it done."
"I appreciate your expression of support for those programs."
"This has been a particular issue in high cost-of-living areas, like New York."
"Let me be clear, capping the SALT deduction at $10,000 targets residents of high cost States, like New York and California, which you know all too well."
"The impact of this scam is so disastrous that I have called on the IRS to accept prepayments of 2018 State and local taxes that many New Yorkers made in 2017."
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