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Position: Secretary - Housing and Urban Development

The secretary is the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development which works to provide a decent, safe, and sanitary home and a suitable living environment for every American. The department attempts to create opportunities for home ownership using assistance for low-income persons. It also develops programs to help the homeless. It enforces the nations housing laws while at the same time, helping local communities meet their development needs and spurring economic growth in distressed neighborhoods.

Type of Appointment/Position: Presidential with Senate confirmation    

Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL) Rate this Nominee   Current Rating: click to rate
Nominee's Background:

A citizen advocate, grassroots organizer, and elected public official, Schakowsky has fought throughout her career for economic and social justice and improved quality of life for all; for an end to violence against women; and for a national investment in healthcare, public education and housing needs. In congress since 1998

Nominating Speech:

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Progressive Criteria:
The Department of Housing and Urban Development will:

Acknowledge that every citizen deserves adequate, safe, life-enhancing housing, and work to support this right;

Promote neighborhood preservation and renewal, rather than population removal and gentrification;

Promote ecological energy-saving construction;

Look at housing as part of a larger picture that involves the need for opportunities for well-remunerated, rewarding work near at hand, especially for low-income areas.

Comments so far:
October 30, 2004 Dan - A fine representative of an extremely well-to-do district with a huge amount of very expensive housing (I live in it)....not an appropriate candidate at all for HUD...

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