For Immediate Release:                                Contact: Heather Wong (202) 226-3314
February 14, 2007                                                           Heather.Wong@mail.house.gov                                                                               
 
Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity to Hold Field Hearings in the Gulf Coast
"Solving the Affordable Housing Crisis in the Gulf Region Post Katrina: Why no progress and what are the obstacles to success?"
 
Washington, DC –  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), chairwoman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, today announced that the subcommittee will hold two field hearings in the Gulf Coast.  The hearings will address the post-Hurricane Katrina affordable housing crisis in the Gulf Coast region. 
 
 
Who:                House Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity
 
What:              Field Hearing: "Solving the Affordable Housing Crisis in the Gulf Region Post Katrina: Why no progress and what are the obstacles to success?"  
 
When:             February 22 - 23, 2007
 
Thursday, February 22, 2007
2 p.m.
Lawless Memorial Chapel, Dillard University
2601 Gentilly Blvd
New Orleans, LA
 
Friday, February 23, 2007
9 a.m.
Good Deeds Center
15101 Madison Street
Gulfport, MS
 
 
Witnesses to be announced. 
 
 
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