It's the state I'm most familiar with. Obviously I was a city councilor here in Massachusetts and on the Land Use Committee. I'm now a congressman, so I see it from all angles. Massachusetts is roughly 250,000 units of housing short over the next decade. We will suffocate our middle class here if we don't build about a quarter million units of housing. (04:02–04:08)
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