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Brian Schatz: “We need to reform land use laws for upzoning to allow higher…”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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Schatz: National Housing Shortage Is A Problem The Government Has Created; We Can Fix It

Published | Video Starts at 08:42

And if you are a progressive and you see how much people are struggling right now, you should love the idea of deregulating the housing market. We need to reform land use laws for upzoning to allow higher density, reducing minimum lot sizes, deploying manufactured homes, enabling single room occupancy development wherever multifamily housing is allowed. And we know all of this works because it's working in certain places. It's hard to keep any issue out of the partisan crossfire. (08:42–08:59)

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Asserts the need for land use law reforms to increase housing density and options.

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