by Candyce Torres, University of New Mexico-Talk Radio News Service. Financial expert Peter Tufano of the Harvard Business School speaking at the Brookings Institution regarding savings, credit and banking among low-income households. (3:03)
At a Committee on Financial Services subcommittee hearing on implementation of Hurricane Katrina relief funds, Director of the Mississippi State Governor’s Office of Recovery and Renewal Jack Norris asks Congress to “streamline or waive” the “cumbersome” environmental regulations that he says are the “number one impediment” to providing affordable housing for victims. (0:42)
The House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity of the Committee on Financial Services held a hearing to assess the implementation of Community Development Block Grant funds for post-Hurricane Katrina reconstruction among the states impacted along the Gulf Coast.
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