12/12/2011
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"Given all of the challenges and the affordability of housing right now, is this not exactly the wrong time to enact the severe cuts to HUD's budget that the House, I see, is proposing?"
"It also includes Sustainable Communities grants, a letter I led with Senator Landrieu that got a quarter of all Senators on it, which urges funding for locally and regionally driven planning, which is..."
"Well, thank you, and we will look forward to working with you as well, the refining it."
"It includes the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, authorizing legislation for which I have introduced in the Senate, that will provide grants to transform blighted neighborhoods and build upon the succ..."