Xavier Becerra
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177 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3 Jun
Xavier Becerra’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'd say, I'm going to give you incentives to do what you're supposed to do under the law.
At some point, though, those incentives go down.
And at some point, we cross over and now it becomes penalties.
And the penalties grow the longer it takes you to conform to what the law says you have to do.
Incent them to come forward.
And if they don't, then start penalizing them for not coming forward.
but we do have some funding that would be available right now in existing housing and community development agency funding, but it's running out.
We do need to have a funding source.
The initiatives that are on the ballot to create bonding authority would help us have some of that funding that we would need, but we would have to certainly make sure we're generating the source of funding.
The legislature does provide the state with some money.
It's not nearly enough, but there is an opportunity to make it clear the funding that the state has
will first and foremost be allocated to those who are conforming to their state law obligations.
Those who aren't, the money that you could have gotten is going to those who are actually fulfilling their housing requirements.
Well, the same reason kids have to eat their broccoli.
I mean, we all have to live by rules.
I guarantee you, everyone would love to be able to cross through an intersection and not have to worry about the red light.
But we have rules.
I live in New York.
Nobody worries about the red light.
Thank God this is California.
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