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Greg Abbott: “Cities across the state [of Texas] are finding ways to skirt…”

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Greg Abbott Asked: 'Why Now Such A Heavy Focus, In Your Campaign, On Affordability?'

Published | Video Starts at 01:01

Let's go back. I've been talk both talking about affordability and, and passing laws addressing affordability. As I mentioned earlier, a law that I signed last session, we have Cities across the state [of Texas] are finding ways to skirt around the laws that we've already passed to rein in all of the costly mandates imposed by cities. And so now we're adding teeth to that as well as making sure that what homeowners like, what we have right here are going to be able to build additions to add family members. (01:01–01:13)

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Asserts that Texas cities are circumventing state laws intended to control costly city mandates.

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