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Bernie Sanders: “50% of their limited incomes on housing.”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Fighting Oligarchy with Bernie Sanders in Altoona (Broadcast at 630PM ET).

Published | Video Starts at 52:51

Amazingly enough, in Vermont, I don't know about here, we have a major housing Crisis. You got 800,000Americans are homeless and we got 20 million people spending more than. 50% of their limited incomes on housing. So if you're spending 50%, what do you got left? Not much. All right, not one word, not one. Word on the housing crisis. (52:51–52:55)

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Asserts that 20 million Americans spend over 50% of their income on housing.

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