Texas Hurricane Housing Forum Video
 
 Michael Gerber
Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs
The Texas case for more housing funding for hurricane victims
 Elizabeth Mueller, PhD
University of Texas at Austin School of Community Planning / board member, Texas Low Income Housing Information Service
How many Katrina evacuees families need long-term housing assistance?  What can they afford?
 Veon McReynolds, PhD
Texas Souther University / board president, Texas Low Income Housing Information Service
How many Rita victims need long-term housing assistance?  What can they afford?
 Martha Blaine
Community Council of Greater Dallas
How many families need long-term housing assistance?  What can they afford?
 
 Marty Shalloo
ACORN Housing Corporation
When will housing be available in the hurricane affected areas so that evacuees will be able to return?
 
 Heather Godwin
Attorney, Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid / hurricane evacuee
What is the status of FEMA temporary assistance?  How long will it house families?
 
 Lee Holbert
Citizens Organized for Rita Restoration
What type of assistance is needed to help Rita survivors?
 
 Barbara Epperson
Advocacy, Inc. Katrina Aid Today
What are the long-term housing needs of evacuees with special needs in Texas?
 
 Tyrone Graves
ACORN Katrina Survivors Association
What type of long-term housing assistance do Katrina survivors want in Texas?
 
 Bob Stumph
Rev. Bob Stumph, Rita survivor, pastor, Seventh Day Adventist Church, Port Arthur
What type of housing assistance do Rita survivors want?
 
 John Garvin, Janet Golrick
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
What funds are available now and in the pipeline for long-term housing in Texas?
 
 Congressman Gene Green
Houston area Representative
What are the prospects of getting more federal housing assistance to Texas to meet long-term needs?
 
 Congressman Al Green
Houston area Representative
What are the prospects of getting more federal housing assistance to Texas to meet long-term needs?
 
 Sheila Crowley
National Low Income Housing Coalition
What are the prospects of Texas getting more federal housing assistance to meet long-term needs?
 
 Mayor Bill White
City of Houston
What additional housing assistance does the City of Houston need?
 
 Ann Lott
Dallas Housing Authority
What are the plans of PHAs to provide additional resources for long-term housing?
 
 John Walsh
Deputy to Mayor White for Housing and Neighborhoods
What are the plans of local governments to provide additional resources for long-term housing?
 
 Bill Dally
Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs
What are the plans of the state government to provide additional resources for Rita housing rebuilding?
 
 Chester R. Jourdan, Jr.
Southeast Texas Regional Planning Commission
What are the plans of county governments to provide additional resources for Rita housing rebuilding?
 
 Holly Anderson, Ethel Bluitt
Deep East Texas Council of Governments
What are the plans of county governments to provide additional resources for Rita housing rebuilding?
 
 Stephan Fairfield
Covenant Community Capital
What new plans does the nonprofit community have available for long-term housing?
 
 Broderick Bagert
The Metropolitan Organization, Houston
What should be the Texas long-term housing plan?  (An explanation of the Resettlement Plan).
 John Henneberger
Texas Low Income Housing Information Service
What should be the Texas’ long-term hurricane housing plan?
 Press conference
 
The press conference held at the conclusion of the Hurricane Housing Forum
 
Video of the speakers at the Texas Hurricane Housing Forum is presented below.
 
A written version of the 5 point long-term housing plan proposed at the conference as well as a video explanation are available.
 
