Congressman Chuck Edwards
Appearances
Up First from NPR
Unprepared: There is No Plan
There's a significant shortage of housing. And a good portion of the reason that we have such a lack of inventory today is that government has overimposed its will on what someone's house should look like and the standards by which it's built.
Up First from NPR
Unprepared: There is No Plan
Not everything that we're talking about here was even a result of the flood. We had so many landslides around the district that no one could possibly anticipate. Are we going to tell those folks that they can't rebuild because a landslide that was totally unknown, totally unpredictable happened? No, we're not going to tell them. That's why we call these natural disasters. They are not predictable.