{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/video-young-discusses-housing-crisis-legislation-to-increase-affordable-housing-nationwide/", "VIDEO: Young Discusses Housing Crisis, Legislation to Increase Affordable Housing Nationwide", "2022-07-21", "2022", "2022-07", "Republican", "Senate", "IN", "Todd Young", "Y000064", "www.young.senate.gov", "toddyoung", "https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013\u2013 During a Senate Finance Committee hearing yesterday, U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) discussed the impact of the affordable housing crisis on Indiana communities and the importance of passing the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act he introducedwith Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.).\n\nSenator Young shared concerns from Hoosiers about the affordable housing crisis.\n\n\u201cI have to tell you, as I travel across the state of Indiana, I hear from every community about the importance of affordable housing and about the challenges they are experiencing right now,\u201d said Senator Young. \u201cThis shortage is of course being exacerbated by the current inflation challenges more broadly impacting the country.\u201d\n\nSenator Young\u2019s Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act would expand and strengthen the nation\u2019s most successful affordable housing program\u2014the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)\u2014to address that shortage by building more than two million new affordable units over the next decade and ensuring the program better serves a variety of at-risk and underserved communities.\n\n\u201cWe can rally around solving difficult challenges together,\u201d said Senator Young. \u201cThis housing affordability crisis, it\u2019s striking how it impacts various demographic groups, geographic areas. It doesn\u2019t really seem to discriminate a lot. The brunt of this crisis falls on a diverse population. It\u2019s so important we support programs and ideas that meet the needs of these variedcommunities.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:20:25Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/video-young-discusses-housing-crisis-legislation-to-increase-affordable-housing-nationwide/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4931652694940567, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}