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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: “Our dollar is, is because of our homeownership rates.”

Featuring: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Democratic | U.S. House, Washington, District 3

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U S Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez at Pioneer Lions Club Jan 23, 2024

Published | Video Starts at 38:26

That's how I bring my mind to understand the issues. But this is everywhere in America. This is all of us. It is the reason that America is the prime reserve currency of the world. Our dollar is, is because of our homeownership rates. It's because the quality of our housing stock after World War Two, when we built things with real timber and not OSB, I mean, God loved the OSB orientated strand board manufacturers, the plywood manufacturers. (38:26–38:31)

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Asserts that the strength of the U.S. dollar is linked to homeownership rates.

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