The Road Home? An Examination of the Goals, Costs, Management and Impediments Facing Louisiana’s Road Home Program

Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery

Thursday, May 24, 2007
03:00 PM

Witnesses

Panel 1

• Donald E. Powell [view testimony]
  Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding
  U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Nelson Bregon [view testimony]
  Assistant Deputy Secretary
  U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
• David Maurstad [view testimony]
  Mitigation Directorate
  Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Panel 2

• Walter Thomas [view testimony]
  Resident
  Lower 9th Ward
• Connie Uddo [view testimony]
  Administrator
  St. Paul’s Beacon of Hope Organization
• Debbie Gordon [view testimony]
  President
  Chimneywood Homeowner’s Association
• Frank Silvestri [view testimony]
  Co-Chairman
  Citizens’ Road Home Action Team
• Frank Trapani [view testimony]
  President
  New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Realtors

Panel 3

• Andy Kopplin [view testimony]
  Executive Director
  Louisiana Recovery Authority
• Suzie Elkins [view testimony]
  Executive Director
  Office of Community Development
• Isabel Reiff [view testimony]
  Senior Vice President, Social Programs and Strategic Communications
  ICF