Congressman Chuck Edwards

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.