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Shri Thanedar: “We need to lift up people in the neighborhood and we need to…”

Featuring: Shri Thanedar, Democratic | U.S. House Michigan, 13th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 1:04:10

That is not the system that I think is sustainable. What we need to do as downtown looks so beautiful, we have this fancy nice restaurants and buildings and high sky tall skyscrapers. We need to lift up people in the neighborhood and we need to do more for that. And that has to start with building more housing. I would like to see 100,000 housing units in Detroit. We could use those today. We could use that. You know, there's about 17,000 low income housing needed today in Detroit. (1:04:10–1:04:25)

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