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| Committee: | House Urban Affairs | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on Urban Affairs, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2002 : a report to the House of Representatives, 78th Texas Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Affordable housing | Colonias | Fire Protection, Texas Commission on | Home equity loans | Homeownership | Housing and Community Affairs, Texas Department of | Mortgages | Municipal employees | Organized labor | Welfare-to-work | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.77 ur1 | |
| Session: | 77th R.S. (2001) | |
| Online version: | View report [134 pages File size: 4,431 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Review the roles of the state and of local public housing authorities in increasing access to housing assistance for the state's poorest families and in supporting families making the transition from welfare to work. | |
| 2. | Examine the definition and roles of community housing development organizations (CHDOs) and non-profit housing entities. Assess standards they should meet in order to qualify for set-asides, tax exemptions and other forms of special consideration. | |
| 3. | Study the potential for improving the performance of public institutions by fostering cooperative efforts among employees and employers, including the long-standing controversies related to various forms of bargaining by groups that do not advocate the right to strike. | |
| 4. | Actively monitor agencies and programs under the committee's oversight jurisdiction, including implementation of sunset legislation, and specifically including requirements to target single family mortgage loans to underserved geographic and economic populations and new Section 8 home ownership initiatives. | |
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