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Tim Scott: “When you increase your housing supply on the local level…”

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 19:56

There are a lot of carrots, a lot of praise, a lot of encouragement. 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. (19:56–20:05)

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Asserts that increasing local housing supply makes jurisdictions eligible for more Community Development Block Grant resources.

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