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Allan Van Fleet
Board member Texas Appleseed
Opening session
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Michael Gerber
Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs
The Texas case for more housing funding for hurricane victims
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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?
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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?
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Martha Blaine
Community Council of Greater Dallas
How many families need long-term housing assistance? ¬What can they afford?
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Marty Shalloo
ACORN Housing Corporation
When will housing be available in the hurricane affected areas so that evacuees will be able to return?
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Heather Godwin
Attorney, Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid / hurricane evacuee
What is the status of FEMA temporary assistance? ¬How long will it house families?
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Lee Holbert
Citizens Organized for Rita Restoration
What type of assistance is needed to help Rita survivors?
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Barbara Epperson
Advocacy, Inc. Katrina Aid Today
What are the long-term housing needs of evacuees with special needs in Texas?
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Tyrone Graves
ACORN Katrina Survivors Association
What type of long-term housing assistance do Katrina survivors want in Texas?
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Bob Stumph
Rev. Bob Stumph, Rita survivor, pastor, Seventh Day Adventist Church, Port Arthur
What type of housing assistance do Rita survivors want?
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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?
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Congressman Gene Green
Houston area Representative
What are the prospects of getting more federal housing assistance to Texas to meet long-term needs?
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Congressman Al Green
Houston area Representative
What are the prospects of getting more federal housing assistance to Texas to meet long-term needs?
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Sheila Crowley
National Low Income Housing Coalition
What are the prospects of Texas getting more federal housing assistance to meet long-term needs?
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Audience questions and comments
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Audience questions and comments
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Mayor Bill White
City of Houston
What additional housing assistance does the City of Houston need?
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Ann Lott
Dallas Housing Authority
What are the plans of PHAs to provide additional resources for long-term housing?
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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?
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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?
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Chester R. Jourdan, Jr.
Southeast Texas Regional Planning Commission
What are the plans of county governments to provide additional resources for Rita housing rebuilding?
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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?
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Stephan Fairfield
Covenant Community Capital
What new plans does the nonprofit community have available for long-term housing?
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Broderick Bagert
The Metropolitan Organization, Houston
What should be the Texas long-term housing plan? ¬(An explanation of the Resettlement Plan).
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John Henneberger
Texas Low Income Housing Information Service
What should be the TexasÄô long-term hurricane housing plan?
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Press conference
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The press conference held at the conclusion of the Hurricane Housing Forum
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