This is not a coincidence; housing issues are racial justice issues.

And to be clear, we have never pursued a public policy audacious or bold enough to close or reverse that gap, correct?

There are children that are coughing up blood in their public housing facilities because they are being poisoned by lead and asbestos.

Research has clearly communicated that segregated, concentrated poverty has long-term, devastating effects on the health and welfare of our Nation's children.

Justice has no price tag.

The idea and this metaphor of a bootstrap started off as a joke because it is a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap.

I would simply like to say that housing is not just an ability to sleep somewhere. It is the ability to be safe, the ability to be healthy.

This legislation that I am putting forward along with my colleagues is literally just to recognize poverty in America.

7 million people have not been lifted off of food stamps in this country. They were kicked off food stamps in this country.

The people caring for our own children--

The inadequacy of the existing poverty calculation is that it is too low, not that it is too high.