Not in the last decade, but if you go back 20 years, yes. In fact, we're asking to go back to the future, if you like, to go back to the 1970s and 1980s, when this represented about 1% of the federal budget, and it was in fact the amount of money the government was spending. And it was producing about 500,000 good-quality affordable homes across the country.
On October 17th, 2006. See this statement in context.