Emilio Gonzalez
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When I was a city mayor, I was city mayor for two years.
My second year budget was actually $100 million less than my first year budget.
We didn't miss a beat.
We just looked for efficiencies.
That's one area that I think we could be incredibly innovative in putting more money in our residents' pockets.
Housing is expensive here, okay?
Living here is expensive.
Yeah, I think we all have.
But you know what?
The city of Miami is not going to build you a house.
We don't have a housing authority.
We can't have.
The federal government won't allow any more housing authorities.
So the idea is to put more money in people's pockets.
And you start, by the way, this isn't an end all.
You start there and then you start look for other opportunities.
You know, one of the things that Blaze did figure.
one of the things that Blaze did is essentially at the macro level, right?
And a very interesting statistic, Miami's population has grown by only 23,000 people.