Source: United States Senator for Ohio Sherrod Brown
DEFIANCE, OH – In Case You Missed It: A Defiance Crescent News article highlighted U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown’s (D-OH) visit to the Defiance City Council Chambers on Thursday to discuss housing needs with local government leaders and advocates. Communities around Ohio need bold infrastructure investments to reach their full economic potential, including investments in housing.
“Local officials who attended a roundtable Thursday afternoon with U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio in Defiance say the city and surrounding area has a housing shortage,” wrote Todd Helberg for the Crescent News.
“Brown met with those officials to discuss that topic alone — approximately two hours after he toured Spangler Candy Co. in Bryan and held a press conference there to tout a pension “fix” for company employees and retirees,” Helberg continued.
Brown supports significant investments in housing infrastructure like those in the American Jobs Plan, which would invest $2.3 trillion for infrastructure, including $213 billion for building, preserving, and retrofitting homes and for community development. The American Jobs Plan also includes additional proposed tax credits to support creating and preserving affordable housing and energy-efficiency investments.
Brown believes we must invest in the people and the communities that make this country work, and has called for investments like those in the American Jobs Plan to provide historic, much-needed investments in our nation’s infrastructure, affordable housing, school facilities, manufacturing and skills training, and more – all while creating good-paying American jobs.
Read the Defiance Crescent News’ full article HERE:
Brown discusses housing during Defiance roundtable
By Todd Helberg
July, 1, 2021
Local officials who attended a roundtable Thursday afternoon with U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio in Defiance say the city and surrounding area has a housing shortage.
Brown met with those officials to discuss that topic alone — approximately two hours after he toured Spangler Candy Co. in Bryan and held a press conference there to tout a pension “fix” for company employees and retirees (see related story).
As chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Brown is interested in learning more about officials’ housing concerns.
“In Washington, the press and most senators just call it the Senate banking committee, and that committee has been far too much about Wall Street and not nearly enough about housing and where we need to go with housing in this country,” said Brown. “And we’ve done a series of hearings already on housing issues.”
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