Examining local efforts to address the foreclosure crisis

On Monday, December 7, 2009 at 10:30 a.m., at the Carl B. Stokes Federal Courthouse, 801 West Superior Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio,  the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, will hold a field hearing entitled, “Examining Local Efforts to Address the Continuing Foreclosure Crisis: Perspectives from Cleveland, Ohio.”

 

The field hearing – which is Part II of a series of hearings intended to examine the local characteristics of the ongoing residential foreclosure crisis – will focus on how this crisis has impacted the Cleveland metropolitan area. The Subcommittee will hear testimony from individuals and organizations working in the Cleveland metropolitan area and statewide who are confronting the effects of the ongoing crisis, and will also evaluate the adequacy of the federal response to the foreclosure crisis.

 

 

 

Ohio State Representative, 14th Legislative District

 

Ohio State Senator, 18th Legislative District

 

Councilmember, Garfield Heights Ward One

 

Director of Community Development, City of Cleveland

 

Treasurer, Cuyahoga County

 

Chief Homeownership Preservation Officer, US Department of Treasury

 

 

Executive Director, Empowering and Strengthening Ohio’s People

 

Senior Vice President, Neighborhood Progress, Inc.

 

Senior Vice President for Community Affairs, Bank of America

 

Co-director, Center on Urban Poverty & Community Development

Case Western Reserve University , Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences