Rural Housing: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, April 3, 1990, Volume 4 |
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affordable housing agency amount applicants AUSMAN banks bill borrowers budget California census Chairman GONZALEZ committee Community Development CONGRESS THE LIBRARY cost credit subsidy December 15 direct loan eligible Elliott county equity takeout loan farm labor farm workers Farmers Home Administration farmworkers Federal financed fiscal FmHA Frontier Housing funds guarantee program guaranteed loan Hispanics home ownership homeless Housing Act Housing and Community housing in rural housing units HUD Reform Idaho Kentucky legislation LEHMAN lenders LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS loan guarantee loan program low income housing Loza MARGE ROUKEMA median income migrant shelter million owner participate payments percent prepayment problem proposed question rent rental assistance Rental Housing Program requirements reserve account ROUKEMA rural America rural areas rural housing programs RURAL HOUSING VOUCHER rural rental housing Secretary Section 515 loan Section 515 projects serve statement subsidized tenants testimony Thank Urban voucher program
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Page 116 - All initial, recommended, tentative, and final decisions will Include a statement of findings and conclusions, as well as the reasons or basis therefor, upon all the material issues of fact, law, or discretion presented on the record, and the appropriate rule, order, sanction, relief, or denial thereof.
Page 81 - The US Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census and the US Department of Agriculture are the principal sources of data on the agricultural labor force.
Page 62 - Before the SUBCOMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HOUSE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, FINANCE AND URBAN AFFAIRS MARCH 10, 1994 Good morning Mr.
Page 156 - SUBCOMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, COMMITTEE ON BANKING, FINANCE AND URBAN AFFAIRS, Washington, DC.
Page 109 - ... that exists for them in rural America today. It is sad that for a broad segment of families with lower incomes there is no such thing as affordable housing. The number of poor people paying more than 50 percent of their income towards rent has increased substantially and homeownership af fordability has become an elusive dream. Participants in rural housing programs are often on the verge of poverty. It has been estimated that 55 percent of rural housing assistance under the Farmers Home Administration...
Page 119 - AREAS We have concerns with designating credit to specific geographic areas or to a specific clientele. First, if the money has been designated to a specific area and it is not spent, then needy families in other parts of the country or other parts of the state may not be able to receive assistance. At a minimum, the money needs to be released within nine months if it is not spent. Second, it is important that people qualify for the program and not be accepted just because of where they live. The...
Page 145 - cooperating agency" in this effort. FmHA field offices referred families to the PHAs for voucher assistance, were available to consult with the PHAs on rural needs and housing markets, and advised owners of rental units financed under its Section 515 rural rental housing program about the availability of housing voucher'..
Page 57 - Crisis, a recent publication by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Housing Assistance Council.
Page 80 - ... standards since that time have meant the loss of even more private labor camp units, while the only federal farmlabor housing program has financed, since 1980, fewer than 5,000 new units, virtually all of those in states with nearly year round need for farm labor. The existing farmlabor housing program administered by the Farmers Home Administration in the US Department of Agriculture, is wholly inadequate to the task. Funded at roughly $22 million in FY 1990 - half loans and half grants - the...
Page 20 - That concludes my prepared statement. I would be glad to answer any questions that you might have. Mr. STAGGERS. Thank you, Mr. Webb. That is one of the shortest and most precise statements I have heard before the committee. Do you know of any opposition to this bill ? Mr.