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Rick Scott: “Florida has to say, how do we drive [housing and insurance]…”

Featuring: Rick Scott, Republican | U.S. Senate, Florida

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Does Florida Have an Affordability Problem? We Asked Sen. Rick Scott | WSJ

Published | Video Starts at 02:05

That's number one. Number two, from a worker standpoint, think about all their cost. So housing costs, you know, rent, or if you're going to buy a house, insurance costs. Florida has to say, how do we drive [housing and insurance] costs down? As much as you can. Right? You still, you do want to have regulations and things like that that make that make sense, but you don't want to, you know, drive up costs where, you know, people can't live there. (02:05–02:09)

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Asserts that Florida needs to reduce housing and insurance costs.

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