Senator John Kennedy
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I'd like to go 5%.
Every year, you've got to increase housing starts.
We don't care how you do it.
We're not going to tell you how to do your job.
Now, if you do that, we're going to reward you.
We're going to give you extra CDBG money.
And you say, well, where's that money coming from?
And then we tell them, well, here's the bad news.
If you don't do it, you don't have to.
But we're going to take away proportionately your CDBG money.
So we use a carrot and a stick.
And we would turn to, let's say, the zoning board in San Francisco, which doesn't want to allow anybody to build a new home.
because the attitude of people is not in my backyard.
We say, that's fine.
That's your business.
But you're not going to get any free money from Washington if you don't increase housing starts by 3% to 5% a year.
You know what?
They'll do it.
Some won't.
They'll have to get burned by the stove, but they'll eventually come around.