June 20, 2003
Washington, DC – At a House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity held late yesterday, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-9) introduced Mr. Gideon Anders, Executive Director of the National Housing Law Project in Oakland. Anders was in Washington testifying before the Subcommittee about needed changes in the Rural Housing Service Program, which is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Lee told the Housing Subcommittee, on which she herself is a member, that Anders was a “fellow soldier in the fight for housing.” Lee said that Anders and the National Housing Law Project worked “to make housing a central part of our domestic agenda” and that they had championed her belief that adequate housing should be considered a “basic human right.”
Lee also told the Subcommittee that “the affordable housing crisis reaches all walks of life, from the urban centers of Oakland, California to the heart of rural America,” and she proposed that fellow members support the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which Lee has co-sponsored. Anders and the National Housing Law Project, she said, had worked with her and other housing advocates “on issues ranging from the need for the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund to defending the rights of tenants under the current HUD one-strike policy.”
Anders is an Oakland resident.
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Oakland Resident Gideon Anders of National Housing Law Project Testifies Before House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Housing
Introduced by Lee at hearing
Washington, DC – At a House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity held late yesterday, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-9) introduced Mr. Gideon Anders, Executive Director of the National Housing Law Project in Oakland. Anders was in Washington testifying before the Subcommittee about needed changes in the Rural Housing Service Program, which is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Lee told the Housing Subcommittee, on which she herself is a member, that Anders was a “fellow soldier in the fight for housing.” Lee said that Anders and the National Housing Law Project worked “to make housing a central part of our domestic agenda” and that they had championed her belief that adequate housing should be considered a “basic human right.”
Lee also told the Subcommittee that “the affordable housing crisis reaches all walks of life, from the urban centers of Oakland, California to the heart of rural America,” and she proposed that fellow members support the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which Lee has co-sponsored. Anders and the National Housing Law Project, she said, had worked with her and other housing advocates “on issues ranging from the need for the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund to defending the rights of tenants under the current HUD one-strike policy.”
Anders is an Oakland resident.
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