WASHINGTON, July 5 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on June 24, 2021, as part of a hearing entitled ""Examining Bipartisan Bill to Increase Access to Housing":

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In our first hearing I gaveled as chair, we talked about how housing is the gateway to opportunity, and to building a middle class life - and how too many families are locked out of it.