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Alphonso Jackson

"HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country."

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"HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country."

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"We believe that, by the time that we leave office, it will be institutionalized, and these programs will be addressing the needs and curing the problem that we set out to do."
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"I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world."
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"And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country."
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"They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America."
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"The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing."
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"So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing."
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"For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat."
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"America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are."
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"I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development."
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"You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand."
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