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Tim Scott: “When you don't meet those thresholds that we set, you lose…”

Featuring: Tim Scott, Republican | U.S. Senate, South Carolina

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Chairman Scott Joins HUD Secretary Turner to Discuss Housing Priorities, ROAD to Housing Act

Published | Video Starts at 20:04

And we say that in government Praise and encouragement. It's called money. So when you increase your housing supply on the local level, you'll be eligible for more CDBG resources. When you don't meet those thresholds that we set, you lose money on the local level. So we give it the jurisdictions who want to do the right thing. And this was an idea, once again, not my bill, not all of it will be my ideas. (20:04–20:11)

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Asserts that failing to meet set thresholds results in loss of funding at the local level.

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