Buttigieg on Housing Controversy Involving Minorities: We Learned Some Things the Hard Way

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BUTTIGIEG: “No policy is perfect and we  learned things the hard way on  this one.  Our policy tools didn’t do a  great job at first of being able  to tell the difference between a  big, bad, out of town home owner  and somebody who maybe had three  or fourer properties or somebody  would buy a house and not even  know it was on the vacant and  abandoned list and that we were  coming to demolish it.  Over time we learned to be more  in dialogue with home owners or  a more accommodating  conversation between the home  ownership side.  We learned the value of  communication.  Quantity/time.  And it’s still an effort some  people had frustrations with.  But the number one can complaint  we heard, especially from  minority and low income home  owners in the neighborhood was  what took you so long?”