"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."
"There are children that are coughing up blood in their public housing facilities because they are being poisoned by lead and asbestos."
"Justice has no price tag."
"Thank you again for holding a third hearing on something that is so important."
"So, that authoritarianism or that immense concentration of power could be done by the state, as we see in China, but it also could be executed by mass corporations, as we see in the United States, cor..."
"In a previous hearing, we were talking about how facial recognition oftentimes has had the highest error rates for black and brown Americans."
"So, what we are seeing is that these technologies are almost automating injustices, both in our criminal justice system, but also automating biases that compound on the lack of diversity in Silicon Va..."
"I wish that we could talk to you, Mr. Williams, and say that your story is an anomaly, but it is normal, and, increasingly, it is the new normal."
"Did you ever try to look for 'affordable housing,' just to find that it is not actually affordable at all?"
"So if you are making 10 bucks an hour, that is not affordable whatsoever, correct?"
"a lot of what gets deemed as affordable housing is not affordable."
"there are 3 empty apartments for every 1 person experiencing homelessness."