on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs
on Housing and Urban

Affairs.

BANKING, HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-FOURTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 1988

TO PROVIDE, ON A DEMONSTRATION BASIS, EMERGENCY
RELIEF FOR THE GENERAL WELFARE AND SECURITY OF THE
UNITED STATES BY PREVENTING THE LOSS OF EXISTING
HOUSING UNITS THROUGH THE PHENOMENON OF HOUSING
ABANDONMENT, TO PROTECT THE HEALTH AND LIVING
STANDARDS IN COMMUNITIES AND NEIGHBORHOODS
THREATENED BY ABANDONMENT, TO PROTECT THE INTER-
ESTS OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONNECTION WITH CERTAIN
MORTGAGE TRANSACTIONS, TO ASSIST LOCAL PUBLIC BODIES
IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND REDEVELOPMENT OF WELL-
PLANNED, INTEGRATED, RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS AND
IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND REDEVELOPMENT OF COM-
MUNITIES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

WILLIAM PROXMIRE, Wisconsin, Chairman

John Reading, mayor, City of Oakland and member of the board of direc-

tors of the League of California Cities__.

S. 1988

John B. Williams, executive director, Oakland Redevelopment Agency.

Fred Cooper, chairman, Board of Supervisors, Alameda County.

John Sutter, city councilman, Oakland, and representative to the East

Oakland Housing Task Force..

Fran Matarrese, chairperson, East Oakland Housing Committee..

Richard Ilgin, director, Oak Center Better Housing--

Bard Saladin, regional manager, Great Western Savings and Loan Associa-

tion, East Oakland Housing Task Force.-

Dr. Marjorie Evans.

James Price, area director, San Francisco Area Office, U.S. Department

of Housing and Urban Development---

Frederick Craig, loan guaranty officer, Veterans Administration Regional

Office, San Francisco_-

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Gene Jarnagin, loan guaranty officer, Veterans Administration_

Henry Cohn, general counsel's office, Veterans Administration_.

Gary Schmidt, chief of property management section, Veterans Adiminis-

tion_.

Gordon Wile, district counsel, Veterans Administration_

Doris Davis, mayor of Compton, Calif.

Michael Salzman, executive director of the Los Angeles Housing Authority-

Joseph Korpsak, executive officer of the Valley Association of Cities_.

Henry B. Dotson, head of the Assistance Initiative Participation Coordi-

nation Commission _ _ _

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135

135

135

141

149

151

154

Ralph Fertig, executive director of the Greater Los Angeles Community

Action Agency-.

158

169

171

Cary Lowe, attorney for the Community Information Project___

178

184

189

194

194

205

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Herman Rappaport, executive, Ventura Capital

Richard Crissman, director of the Ralph C. Sutro Co-

Ellen Kastel, research director for the Center for New Corporate Priorities_

Professor Frederick Case, Graduate School of Management at UCLA..

Professor Frank Mittelbach, Graduate School of Management at UCLA.

Professor John Clapp, Graduate School of Management at UCLA..

Jonathan Lehrer-Graiwer, Western Center on Law and Poverty

Valarie Pope, executive director of the San Bernardino Westside Commun-

ity Development Corp--

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