Nobody wants to be first on anything. Nobody wants to be the leader, but it happened, and then it has evolved now to Latinos, and now we are moving to naturalized citizens. We are moving to Asians.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you for putting this hearing together. I think it is a very important topic...

Thank you to all the panel for being here because this is something that directly impacts so many of us in and around Texas.

I have seen what the need for housing was then.

How can increased investment in the National Housing Trust Fund help low-income communities stay in their homes?

Guess what? They really haven't.

I believe in improving transportation and mobility for neighborhoods.

The National Housing Trust Fund program at its current funding level, all of the funding, all of the dollars go to States in order for them to get the funds out to developers to build and preserve apartments for the lowest-income people.

Without some government involvement, the market fails to develop any new low-income housing?

How do we prioritize and provide resources for equitable transit-oriented development projects that will maintain diverse communities in the full sense of the word like Logan Square?

the ERA and what we are talking about here today was never mentioned in any of those cases, was it?