Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity Field Hearing

Solving the Affordable Housing Crisis in the Gulf Region Post Katrina: Why no progress and what are the obstacles to success?

9:00 a.m., Friday, February 23, 2007, Good Deeds Center; 15101 Madison St., Gulfport, MS
Housing

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Panel One:

• The Honorable Gene Taylor, Member of Congress
• The Honorable Brent Warr, Mayor, Gulfport, Mississippi

Panel Two:

• Mr. Gil Jamieson, Deputy Director for Gulf Coast Recovery, Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Ms. Donna Sanford, Director Disaster Recovery Division, Mississippi Development Authority
• Mr. Delmar Robinson, Biloxi Housing Authority
• Mr. Chuck Benvenutti, Chairman of the Governors Commission, Hancock County, MS

Panel Three:

• Mr. Derrick Evans, Executive Director, Turkey Creek Initiative
• Mr. Jason Mackenzie, North Gulfport Community Land Trust
• Ms. Lillie Bender, Unity Homes Project
• Mr. H. Rodger Wilder, President, Gulf Coast Community Foundation
• Mr. Jon Jopling, Mississippi Center for Justice
• Mr. William J. Bynum, Chief Executive Officer, Enterprise Corporation of the Delta
• Ms. Diane Collier, Tenant
• Mr. Brian Sanderson, Gulf Coast Business Council 
• Mr. Walter O. Hendrix, President & CEO, DASH Neighborhood Revitalization, Inc. 
• Mr. Rodger Clark, Paralyzed Veterans of America
  

Available Member Statements:

Printed Hearing: 110-6