September 12, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 146 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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                            WE NEED A RESET

  (Mr. BLUMENAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, we have a crisis in housing, in 
homelessness, growing wealth inequality, and it is all not an accident. 
It is the result of deliberate discrimination and policy failure.
  The Federal Government, for years, intervened in housing for White 
veterans, for middle-class homeowners, for developers and property 
owners, but shut out poor and, especially, people of color--African 
Americans, most notably. Trump is making it worse.
  Tonight, 550,000 people will go to sleep homeless. We have a gap of 7 
million affordable rental units, and income inequality grows. We need a 
reset.
  Last week, I released this report, ``Locked Out: Reversing Federal 
Housing Failures and Unlocking 
Opportunity,'' which details solutions for our most vexing housing 
policy challenges. It is available on 
blumenauer.house.gov website.
  We must be bold, transformative, and ambitious in solving these 
challenges. We can't afford another generation of small-scale thinking 
and large-scale failure.

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