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LISC CEO and President Clinton on Homeownership and Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

LISC CEO Maurice A. Jones joined President Bill Clinton, former HUD Secretary Julian Castro and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to talk solutions to the housing crisis in a post-pandemic landscape on a Clinton Foundation video-streamed panel, "Affordable Housing and (Re)building the American Dream." Homeownership, Jones noted, is central to closing the racial health, wealth and opportunity gaps that keep the nation from realizing its potential, and bold investment and systems change, as with LISC's new initiative Project 10X, are imperative to closing those gaps.

Hear Maurice's part of the discussion below: