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Jeff Merkley: “So we are spending all this money to help reduce the price of a house in the longer term.”

On the recordSeptember 19, 2011
So we are spending all this money to help reduce the price of a house in the longer term.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley questions the effectiveness of current spending on housing affordability.

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