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Marc Berman: “Half the cost of housing is the land, and community colleges…”

Featuring: Marc Berman, Democratic | California State Assembly, 23rd District

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Assemblymember Marc Berman's Annual Youth Town Hall - 2024

Published | Video Starts at 1:18:57

It's definitely a top priority, and it's something that I want to continue advocating for because it's very, very, very important, I think, to all of us. Yeah. I mean, Half the cost of housing is the land, and community colleges have a lot of land. And so you just got to get a little creative, maybe reuse certain areas in different ways. But if you can knock off half the cost of building it right off the bat, you got a lot of potential. (1:18:57–1:19:03)

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Asserts that land constitutes half the cost of housing and community colleges have significant land resources.

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