Speech at the Governor's Housing Conference on the U.S. Housing Crisis · Les AuCoin Collection

Identifier: PUA_MS147_242
Title: Speech at the Governor's Housing Conference on the U.S. Housing Crisis
Description: In a speech, U.S. Congressman Les AuCoin addressed the housing crisis facing the nation in the 1970s. AuCoin describes issues relating to the the timber industry. AuCoin expressed his desire to have new government legislation "be aimed at curbing the rise in the cost of housing, rather than being almost exclusively preoccupied with increasing government programs to subsidize housing." The Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1977, including the Urban Development Action Grant program, is mentioned. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. AuCoin served in the Oregon House of Representatives (1971-1975) and in the United States House of Representatives from Oregon's 1st District (1975-1993).
Creator: AuCoin, Les
Date: Year(s): 1977
Date: Display: October 27, 1977
Subject: United States. Congress. House.; Legislators--United States; Bills, Legislative; United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development.; Housing policy
Place: United States
Source: Pacific University Archives
Copyright: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Type: Text