We know we have a housing crisis. We know our housing programs are excellent. We have the money to use for housing, which is dedicated for housing, so this should be our banner year.
We are not putting more people in housing with that amount of money, we?re putting fewer people in housing. This is not a move forward in any way.
There is nothing that legislators can do this session that is more important than the affordable housing trust fund, allocating full funding from that.
Real estate prices are so high and people of the low-income pay scale desperately need those public housing units. If they're proceeding cautiously because they do want to serve the population they serve, that's a good thing.
This is the best package we've seen so far. It's a tremendous response to the housing crisis.
The higher the prices, the more you need housing subsidies, so the system works perfectly unless you divert the money. Then there's a meltdown.