If you are rich, you are going to qualify for a loan. You wouldn't need to get one, but you will qualify.

I am especially thankful that you approved our having the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing in Houston, Texas.

Mr. Frotman, let me ask you, and I hear my colleagues on the other side talking about all this.

At one time, as you well know, Black people were not allowed to learn, not allowed to get an education.

I think all of you on the panel will agree that when we talk about the current student debt, it is a crisis.

I am a little bit concerned about persons who believe that you can somehow pass a skin test.

there was a profit of $780 billion in the banking industry of just the top-tier banks and $160 billion in losses

This is bigger than any one single crisis. It is an affordable housing crisis, it is a living wage crisis, a mental health crisis, a substance abuse crisis, an incarceration crisis, and it is also an invidious discrimination crisis.

It really is a human tragedy of the highest magnitude.

I thank Congressman Al Green for his March 2018 letter supporting the Fair Housing Act, supporting Fair Housing Initiatives (FIT) funding.

This bill is $13.3 billion, and it takes a holistic approach to dealing with this unnatural disaster.

with the top 20 percent holding 90 percent of the wealth, is this a factor in this homelessness problem--and many others as well--but in the homelessness problem?

I will make sure that that staffer visits with you after this hearing.

HUD had moved the nation forward in addressing the rights and access of the transgender community in our shelter inventory and required all communities to provide equal access.

If you had the necessary resources, how much and then over what period of time before you would give us what results?

I am proud to say that I am a person who supports your bill, the Ending Homelessness Act, and here is why.

Unfortunately, Mr. Watkins, we have a person at the highest office in this land who, in my opinion, does not appreciate, 'But for the grace of God, there go I.'

The recovery is not complete unless everybody benefits from the recovery.

The Black home ownership rate was at a 50-year low, at 40.6 percent in Michigan.

African Americans, minorities, are the canary in the coal mine.

Hurricane Harvey just made poor people poorer.

And still I rise because I love my country, and I also rise because I believe that we are currently in a constitutional crisis. The executive branch of the government is refusing to honor subpoenas lawfully issued by committees of the…

We want him back. He is ours. He belongs to us.

And still I rise, proud to be an American and, today, I would also say, proud to be a member of the Nation's oldest civil rights organization, the NAACP. I am especially proud to be a member of the NAACP today because, yesterday, the NAACP…

Model citizens do not just wake up one morning and decide they are going to try to overthrow a government.