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" The truth is that the dream of homeownership is out of reach for too many Americans. "
Julian Castro
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" What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities big and small, and we don't have the resources necessary to fill that gap. "
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Like
" The only part of my mother's experience that still gets to me is the way she and people like her were looked down upon for asking America to be America, for asking for full and equal participation in our democracy. "
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Mother
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Foot
Best
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Job
Hispanic
Good
" And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers. "
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Talent
Shadow
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Time
You
Blessing
" We have a responsibility to protect public housing residents from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke, especially the elderly and children who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases. "
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Housing
Smoke
Responsibility
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Hispanic
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Names
City
Want
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Challenges
Education
Early
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Death
Congress
Way
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Great
Power
People
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Opportunity
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Past
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Far
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Time
Stigma