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Tom Barrett: “Foreign investors that never even been to Lansing, Michigan…”

Featuring: Tom Barrett, Republican | U.S. House, Michigan, District 7

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HUD Secretary Scott Turner stops in Lansing to talk affordable housing

Published | Video Starts at 08:46

So we're trying to do it at the same time. Yeah. So which are foreign owned, even. I mean, not that it makes it better, but it makes it a worse condition when you have Foreign investors that never even been to Lansing, Michigan, buying up the housing stock here. that is competing against ordinary American families. So that's something we have to protect. So thank you for the question. I'm Rachel Holtzman with News 10. Secretary, I have a question. (08:46–08:52)

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