Wes Moore

Well, honestly, I can tell you about what we've done in Maryland and why it's working.

You're going to play it safe?

Well, no, and honestly, this is not a play it safe because I have not spent time digging into what's happening.

Because I think we follow best practices, and I think we've got some really interesting best practices that I think Maryland can share with other people and some things that we've learned from other states.

And I can tell you about some of those things as well.

Well, I can tell you what we did to help fix homelessness without $24 billion.

Please, even better.

The first thing that you got to do, you have to focus on the acute problem and making sure that housing has to become an issue.

You have to make sure that people are not becoming homeless in the first place, which deals with the issue of housing insecurity, which means that we need to build more housing, right?

We have to build more affordable options and affordable housing for people.

It's one of the big reasons why I've been very aggressive when it comes to housing in my state, because I don't think the way you deal with housing and the rising cost of housing is by capping the cost.

I think you have to build more housing.

And so what we've done, for example, in Maryland, where I said, who's the largest landowner in the state of Maryland?

Well, the answer is the state of Maryland.

And I get that 70% of my state is either water lined or water locked.

You can't build everywhere, but in the places that you can build, you need to build and you need to make it faster.

Cut the red tape.

cut all the regulations and all the permitting processes and everyone who wants to slow this process up and say on things like transit-oriented development and density bonuses, get that stuff done and build more housing.

And actually I passed legislation that says particularly around transit, trains, buses, et cetera, if it is state-owned land, I want to build housing on it, right?

Because that's going to increase more inventory for people and inventory of all types, affordable housing and a whole bunch of variety of different types of housing.