The Importance of a State-Level Approach to Housing Policy

The housing finance system in this country and sort of our zoning infrastructure has not been kind, right? You don't have to dig too deep into sort of housing history to see why there are large concentrations of poor and black and brown families in cities who are not allowed to go to suburbs. So I think we felt it was really important that there was a mandate in here to make sure that that housing does get built," he said.