[FoCHAT] CHATNews- Fw: Link to Senate hearing 5-20-09

[mehrlich8 at yahoo.com]

Dear FoCHAT Members,
 
1. Next regular CHAT meeting
 
Next CHAT meeting, the last regularly scheduled one, will be on Wed., May 27. Please note the room change. CHAT news and all other CHAT functions will continue.
 
Next CHAT Meeting 

Time: Meetings on Wed. at 6:30 PM at UNO, usually every other week 

Place: Room 212, UNO Milneburg Hall, on Milneburg Rd. (the road where the brand new dorms are, past the stop sign and the University Center and opposite the Fitness Center.
Building #24: Directions to the Business Bldg are given on the Campus Map for UNO 

NEXT MEETING Wed., May 27. Newcomers are welcome.* 
 
 
 
2. The emails to the 4 Congressmen are having an effect and we hope for more feedback from officials and our elected Congresspeople. 
 
Thank you very much to those who sent them. 
 

There has been some follow-up already about my testimony yesterday. In addition, Sen. Landrieu said to me off-camera after the hearing that I should be sure to give her the hard copies of the emails that I received. So far we have 70 emails.
 
 
Many of your comments offered excellent summaries. 
 
Please send an email if you have not yet done so and are concerned about remaining Road Home issues of great unfairness.
 
Please give a little substantial information (not too long and no attachments, please) about Road Home in your email.
 

Please send an email to:
  
 chatlra at yahoo.com 
  
Insist that there be no more delays in a fair investigation of the Road Home Program by the HUD Office of the Inspector General.   
  
  
CHAT recommends you write your email like this:

Dear Sens. Landrieu, Vitter, and Lieberman and Rep. Olver, 

Use your own words to urge that the HUD OIG conduct a fair investigation of the Louisiana Road Home Program without delays. Please tell why this is important. Give a personal example if you like. 

Yours truly,

YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS 


While there have been HUD investigations of the Road Home Program, they have all been about overpayments to applicants. None have looked at the much more serious and frequent problem of underpayments. The complaint that HUD has accepted for investigation but is delaying starting is about underpayments.

The longer the investigation is delayed, the less chance that the government will take responsibility: 

for the extraordinary neglect that many thousands of applicants have faced during grant processing 
and for the violation of HUD rules and Road Home Program rules, which has hurt so many applicants. 
If you have a fax machine available, please fax your letter yourself, and send an email to chatlra at yahoo.com telling us that you did so. 

Sen. Mary Landrieu, Louisiana
Fax:(202) 224-9735 

Sen. David Vitter, Louisiana 
Fax: (202) 228-5061 

Rep. John W. Olver, Chair, Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies 
Fax: 202-226-1224 

Sen. Joe Lieberman, Chair, Governmental Affairs and Homeland Security Committee 
Fax:(202) 224-9750 

For more information about the HUD OIG complaint and for updates about the Road Home Program, elevation grants, follow-up of building by LRA, and other Road Home matters from the applicants’ viewpoint, please see CHAT's website: www.chatushome.com. 
 

 
3. Yesterday's Senate Subcommittee hearing on the use of CDBG funds, including the Road Home Program, can be viewed online. 
 
You can use move a cursor that the plots the time elapsed during showing to go to different parts of the hearing.

From: @yahoo.com>
Subject: Link to Senate hearing 5-20-09








 
http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Hearings.Detail&HearingID=f7448914-51a5-41dc-8f75-1e820a008a80
 
Hope you enjoyed your trip.
 
John
 

 
____________________________________________________________________
 
Best wishes,
 
Melanie Ehrlich
http://chatushome.com
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