Political Quotes

“We have a crisis in housing, in homelessness, growing wealth inequality, and it is all not an accident. It is the result of deliberate discrimination and policy failure. The Federal Government, for years, intervened in housing for White veterans, for middle-class homeowners, for developers and property owners, but shut out poor and, especially, people of color--African Americans, most notably. Trump is making it worse. Tonight, 550,000 people will go to sleep homeless. We have a gap of 7 million affordable rental units, and income inequality grows. We need a reset. Last week, I released this report, ``Locked Out: Reversing Federal Housing Failures and Unlocking Opportunity,'' which details solutions for our most vexing housing policy challenges. It is available on blumenauer.house.gov website. We must be bold, transformative, and ambitious in solving these challenges. We can't afford another generation of small-scale thinking and large-scale failure. ____________________”