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Maria Cantwell: “We literally have a 60-percent increase in the number of people now paying more than 50 percent of their income for…”

On the recordJuly 17, 2017
We literally have a 60-percent increase in the number of people now paying more than 50 percent of their income for housing.
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington

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Cantwell highlights the growing housing affordability crisis in America.

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