So let's talk about what that issue looks like in Texas and what remedies we've already seen during last session.

Sure.

So let's do some history here.

Let's walk through the housing affordability issue dating back to the last two sessions, because I think that's important to where we are now.

One statistic I'll throw at you, according to the comptroller in August of 2024, he said that we lack a supply to meet demand here in Texas by about 300,000 homes.

And so we had that fact from the comptroller heading into the 2025 session.

but if you go back to even 2023 when tbpf really started getting into housing affordability reform and things to do there we had kind of like a ragtag coalition that came about which included nicole nosek just touching base with members of the legislature really going low-key on these issues because No one had really done a concerted effort before at the legislature on housing reform.

So what did that look like then between the 2023 session and 2025?

Mm-hmm.

So that money usually goes to political campaigns, it goes towards advocacy efforts and that sort, to vendors, vendors who stand to profit from the education system.

So one, uh, example I would use, so we are here in Dallas, and Dallas ISD had a bond on the ballot back in May.

So it's May of an even year.

May tends to be tur- uh, turnout tends to be abysmal, right?

Mm-hmm.

And then there's a lot of money that goes behind the other side of the messaging.

And so o- one of the biggest problems we have is that we just don't have enough people on our side that are putting, you know, our messaging out there.