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Bernie Sanders: “We got a massive housing crisis.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 1:18:16

And as Brian mentioned, we have got to raise the minimum wage to a livable wage. Nobody who works 40 hours a week should live in poverty. Here in Ohio and in Vermont and all over this country We got a massive housing crisis. Do you know how many people we could put into good paying union jobs building 7 million units of low income and affordable housing? Hundreds of thousands of good paying jobs. (1:18:16–1:18:20)

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Asserts the existence of a significant housing crisis in the U.S.

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