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Mark Pocan: “Housing, construction costs, how much of this, you know…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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With Liberty and Justice for Some Ep. 55 with Jim Parrott

Published | Video Starts at 16:38

So the spillover effects of this are pretty considerable. So you implied this a little bit when you were talking initially on the 30,000 foot level. But you know, Housing, construction costs, how much of this, you know, rising cost is attributable to rising costs or you know, where are construction rates? You said it sounds like there's a donut hole of construction rates, but is that driven by those costs or what's that? (16:38–16:50)

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Questions the extent to which rising housing costs are due to increased construction costs.

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