Sylvia Rodriguez Garcia

We need to make sure that discrimination impacts do not get incorporated into new ways of banking.

Blatant and obvious discrimination in redlining mostly doesn't occur, but it continues under the guise of gentrification.

Our diversity is one of our strengths, and it is one that should make us all very proud.

The legacy of discrimination and racism has kept some communities and some of us here today from succeeding.

I am talking about what I call--some of the things that a lot of cities are doing to target the homeless to, 'get them off the street and not be seen,' especially in downtown areas.

If you lost your job today and lost your house and lost everything and became homeless, would this be the way you would want to be treated, to get a ticket because you were sleeping in a car?

I just don't see where that gets us, and quite frankly, I don't like hardly any of these at all.

I have had some real concerns, even in my own City, about the criminalization of homelessness.

Your presence here today is a strong indicator of your concerns and your sentiments on this issue.

It takes a long time to figure out what the issue is.

Now, we are seeing more women and children.

Just have more hearings and meetings and let it be brought to the table, the specific needs of the women.

We need to let them make their own choices?

So if the regulation were put in place, how many of those would be children?

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman, and thank you so much for your leadership and also welcoming us to your district.

I think we should really address some of those issues, particularly when it comes to any more of these remaining Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Well, because that goes to funding for Legal Services.

You didn't even get a notice to come to court?

But did she have due process at the beginning, when she was first in arrears of her taxes?

Do you believe that the administration in Detroit is operating in a similar fashion today? Is this just modern redlining?

It sounds to me that this needs to be done at the State level, to go in and repeal that law.

That is just outrageous. No, that is not a Federal law.

I am just sitting here, almost shocked.

But did any of the studies that you cited make recommendations as to what we can do to make the banks more accountable under the CRA?

We need compensation. And providing compensation is the only way that we can ensure people are held to account.