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Pete Buttigieg: “We need to make it easier to build in the first place. And…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Community Conversation between Mayor Randall Woodfin and Secretary Pete Buttigieg

Published | Video Starts at 42:47

I think that's true in a lot of areas of the federal government, including how the federal government supports or ought to support housing. I think it's clear that We need to make it easier to build in the first place. And there's a lot of reforms, many of them at the state and local levels, that can happen. We also have to make it easier to get federal dollars to worthy projects that are going to make it more affordable and more possible to live. (42:47–42:54)

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