U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee Reviews Louisiana’s Road Home Program

The U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity held an August 20, 2009  hearing on the implementation of Louisiana’s “Road Home” Program entitled “Implementation of the Road Home Program Four Years after Hurricane Katrina.”

A list of witnesses and corresponding hyperlinks to their testimony is reprinted below.  A transcript of the hearing will be available at a later date by clicking here.

Witness List & Prepared Testimony:

Panel One

• Mr. Fred Tombar, III, Senior Advisor for Disaster Recovery, U.S. Department of
• Housing and Urban Development
• Mr. Paul Rainwater, Executive Director, Louisiana Recovery Authority
• Mr. Ommeed Sathe, Director of Real Estate Strategy, New Orleans Redevelopment Authority

Panel Two

• Mr. Christopher Oney, Executive Vice President, Hammerman & Gainer, Inc. ­
• Ms. Allison Plyer, Deputy Director, Greater New Orleans Nonprofit Knowledge Works
• Ms. Dominique Duval-Diop, Senior Associate, PolicyLink
• Ms. Davida Finger, Clinical Professor, New Orleans College of Law, Loyola University
• Mr. Matthew Colangelo, Director, Economic Justice Group, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
• Ms. Mildred Franklin, Resident, Eighth Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Ms. Shari Baker, Resident, Pontchartrain Park, New Orleans, Louisiana