Antonis Christodoulou Takes on Pete Aguilar | Full Interview [5:04-10:05]

to find and buy a home, it's a tough real estate market. What is the plan to help young people get a house in your district? Oh, so go ahead, I think you're, I think that would cut out, but I think I understand the question. So focus on people in housing more affordable for the nation or house, we need to provide assistance to smaller builders, to local builders and then make sure that they have the funds in the capital to be able to go on these ventures and build housing, build in our communities, whether it is working with local and state governments to work on zoning laws to make sure we can build actual dense housing that people can live in who are my age. Because many people my age, they can't afford to live in this current district or they can't afford to be in this area along with the job market currently to where a lot of people know are moving to Temecula, moving around the country, moving to places where they have to find work because they can't afford to live here. So I would want to do that as one of my first measures is focusing on building more housing, funding local projects through the federal government. And in addition, I think the most important thing is to make sure we limit the private equity and venture capital and Wall Street from owning our housing industry. Since the pandemic, we've heard many stories about these private profit interest groups trying to buy up housing, trying to buy up units, trying to buy up apartments so they can make a profit from a necessity that we need, which is a roof over our head and all these things. So it would focus on making sure we pass actual bills that stop the corporate interest from coming in and owning our housing and then trying to make a pretty penny off that too. Because when we end up seeing rate hike sometimes, we are witnessing corporate greed. I know that our housing industry and our apartments are entirely owned by these corporations, but they have a big effect on it. And one of the reasons why I chose the federal position initially was because I viewed the federal power to stop this as the strongest. In fact, using consumer protection laws and antitrust laws to make sure that we can limit all of these corporations from creating monopolies, dooples and controlling our markets in housing. We all need to house. We all should have a housing, a roof over our head. And it should be affordable. So we are not giving our money to these wealthy companies that end up bringing their extra profits to their shareholders, give those profits to their executives, give golden parachutes to their CEOs so they can go somewhere else. This is all that we have been paying for for the past 10 years at least that I have been paying attention. And when I have learned about how the country has been run from before I was even born, it has also been making a move towards that. So that is also a measure I am focused on. And in the long term, I want to convert empty lots and facilities into housing. We need to convert them into public and social housing, which are not free, but they are at market costs. So our government comes in working with federal, state and local agencies to make sure that we can provide a competitor to these wealthy interest groups, to these wealthy groups that try and profit from our housing. So what I want to do is work with the state, local and federal governments to make sure we can get affordable housing, get it built, and then have the government own it and maintain it so they can compete against these wealth and interest groups so we can bring down the costs. Because what we were saying, like I said earlier, we are a lot of our funding goes straight to these executives, these wealthy families, these wealthy corporations. And we don't see any of that in our communities. That rent doesn't get back into our communities, they don't spend in our communities. They end up holding all this wealth and then we end up sitting there thinking, where is all this money we're paying rent on? Our age back has been working, our floors are flooded, everything is not looking good and there's mold. And yet we are seeing this issue persist and we need to fix the affordability in our country. You mentioned empty lots and building housing to fill those empty lots but some who environmentalist environmental groups when they hear build more housing, they may object to it and say, we want to preserve California's beautiful nature and we don't want to increase housing supply because it's going to destroy California's nature.