Dem Sen. Tina Smith: We Need Social Housing Because No One Can Afford a House

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SMITH: “Do you know that in over 90 percent of American counties most minimum wage workers can't afford even a modest one-bedroom apartment? The private market is not building the housing that we need. We have a severe housing shortage. So, social housing is way of building permanently affordable housing to meet the needs of middle-class Americans and regular Americans. I'm excited about this bill and I think it's going to really give us a new way of thinking about how to address the severe housing shortage that we have in this country.”