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Elissa Slotkin: “If you're a mayor and are a city council and you are not pro…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Senator Elissa Slotkin joins Mackinac panel to discuss housing crisis

Published | Video Starts at 16:56

There's a bunch of different things that other places are experimenting with. But if we don't take it as our mission and if these. And this is why in the legislation that I've worked on, If you're a mayor and are a city council and you are not pro growth communities, meaning you're not adding housing units, then you're going to be at risk of losing your federal funding. because you're not pro growth enough. That's how much of an emergency it is to on housing. It's like an ice storm, except it's a housing emergency and we need to treat it as such. (16:56–17:09)

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