BANKING, FINANCE AND URBAN AFFAIRS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

DECEMBER 15, 1982

Serial No. 97-100

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CONTENTS

(Witnesses listed in order of appearance)

WITNESSES

Mary Ellen Hombs, member, Community for Creative Non-Violence

Mitch Snyder, member, Community for Creative Non-Violence.........

Kim Hopper, member, National Coalition for Homeless, and research asso-

ciate for the Community Service Society of New York; accompanied by

Ellen Baxter, member of both organizations.

Bob Hayes, attorney, Coalition for the Homeless, New York, N.Y.

Major Paul Kelly, northeast Ohio regional district commander, the Salvation

Army, Strongsville, Ohio......

Major and Mrs. Bob Zook, Volunteers of America, Cleveland, Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. Long, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Toni Podojil, secretary, United Labor Agency Retirees, Cleveland, Ohio.

Anna V. Brown, director, department of aging, city of Cleveland.

Sister Donna Hawk, West Side Catholic Center Women's Shelter, Cleveland,

Ohio......

106

Sister Loretta Schulte, West Side Catholic Center Shelter, Cleveland, Ohio.......

William Forester, employment counselor, department of employment services,

Cleveland, Ohio....

112

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John Mattingly, associate director, Greater Cleveland Interchurch Council,

Cleveland, Ohio....

George Andrews, Washington, D.C..

Veronica Maz, founder, House of Ruth, Washington, D.C.

Billie Jean Young, regional director, Rural America.

Hon. Ted Weiss, a Representative in Congress from the State of New York.

Hon. Ted L. Wilson, mayor, Salt Lake City, Utah

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Carol Bellamy, president, city council, New York, N.Y.; accompanied by

Robert Trobe, deputy administrator, office of family adult services, New

York City Human Resources Administration.....

Kevin Moriarity, director, human resources and services, San Antonio, Tex.....

Thomas Keefe, special assistant to Mayor Charles Royer of Seattle, Wash..

Lewis Hickson, general manager, St. Bonaventure's Capuchin Community

Center, and president, Coalition on Temporary Shelter, both of Detroit,

Mich..

James Scheibel, councilman, St. Paul City Council, St. Paul, Minn..

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Fred Mertz, pastor, Assumption Catholic Church, St. Paul, Minn., cochair,

Committee To Address the Needs of Street People....

449

Harold Bussell, president, National Association of Mental Health Administra-

tors, and chief executive officer, Franklin County Mental Health Board,

Columbus, Ohio.......

454

Dorothy M. Reynolds, president, The Open Shelter, Inc., Columbus, Ohio......

Rev. Eduard Loring, director, Open Door Community, Atlanta, Ga...

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467

Rev. Thomas J. Harvey, executive director, National Conference of Catholic

Charities..

470

Col. Ernest A. Miller, director, national public affairs office, the Salvation

Army.....