Bernie Sanders: “We have 650,000 people who are homeless.”

“And the truth is that in the state of Vermont, Los Angeles, and every place in between, people are having a really hard time finding affordable housing. Not to mention that We have 650,000 people who are homeless. So jumping right on to that issue early on and saying we've got to build, I think she was talking about 3 million units of affordable housing.” (12:19–12:23)

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