10/27/2009
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"The shortage that my colleague from Maryland mentioned is certainly true in Oregon. We estimated we're about 110,000 units short."
"Thank you. And I hope for our sake they don't start to target Rhode Island."
"The only people that could buy them were hedge funds. Hedge funds discovered that this was a fabulous investment."
"I really saw when I was director of Habitat for Humanity how an affordable mortgage or affordable rental housing was huge to the stability of family."