Nydia Velázquez actually said...

I would like to take this opportunity to encourage you to sit down and use the leverage of your agency in talking to lenders and trying to incentivize them to make smaller loans to women, minorities, because that is the area where we are seeing a vacuum and we need to address that.

04/04/2017

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