On the recordJuly 30, 2020
Madam Speaker, I would like to thank the chairman for including my two amendments here regarding housing discrimination. Yesterday, the President had tweeted that he was ``happy to inform all of the people living their suburban lifestyle dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low-income housing built in your neighborhood.'' Now, this is classic, textbook discrimination. And we are here to rise to say: Uh-uh. This is not going to happen on our watch and that our Nation is strengthened and exemplified by diversity of class, race, and all backgrounds when it comes to housing; that HUD and the Department of Housing has an affirmative responsibility to not just prevent discrimination but to actively dismantle years and decades of actively racist and discriminatory policy. That is our responsibility, and we have a responsibility to block that discriminatory policy wherever we see it.
