Chino, Wendell, president, National Tribal Chairman's Association; Cleveland, Roy J., executive director, Navajo Housing Authority. James, Hon. Overton, Governor, Chickasaw Nation, Ada, Okla Knight, Marlin, executive director, Association of Village Council Presi- Le Beau, Lloyd: February 20, 1980, as vice chairman, National American Indian February 21, 1980, as executive director, Cheyenne River Housing McHenry, Clyde T. J., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Housing and Indian Programs, Department of Housing and Urban Development; accompanied by Irvin Santiago, Special Assistant to the Secretary for Indian and Alaskan Affairs, and John Shaw, Deputy Director of the Peake, G. Ronald, Chief, Division of Housing Assistance, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior.. Pearson, Billy, Director, Office of Environmental Health, Indian Health Services, Health Services Administration, Department of Health, Toews, Virginia, representing the National Congress of American Indians. White, Lucille G., chairperson, Association of Eastern Indian Housing Wilson, Harold O., executive director, Housing Assistance Council; ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Submitted for INCLUSION IN THE RECORD Barber, William G., architect, William G. Barber & Associates, joint state- ment with Donald Montoya, director of housing, Pueblo of Laguna, N. Benning, Walter L., president, Manufactured Housing Institute, statement_ On behalf of the National Tribal Chairmen's Association_. STATEMENTS—Continued Knight, Marlin, resolutions of the Alaska Housing Authorities_ Charts submitted on FmHA's survey on participation in section 502 Prepared statement on behalf of the Farmers Home Administration_ LeBeau, Lloyd, report of the North American Indian Housing Council McHenry, Clyde T. J., response to request for additional information Montoya, Donald, director of housing, Pueblo of Laguna, N. Mex., joint statement with Bill Barber, architect, Wiliiam G. Barber & Associates, Peake, G. Ronald, prepared statement on behalf of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior_. Simons, Lawrence B., Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner, Department of Housing and Urban Development, letter dated February 19, 1980, responding to request for certain data on INDIAN AND ALASKAN NATIVE HOUSING PROGRAMS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1980 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, FINANCE AND URBAN AFFAIRS, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10:10 a.m., in room 2128, of the Rayburn House Office Building; Hon. Thomas L. Ashley (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Ashley, Gonzalez, LaFalce, AuCoin, Evans of Indiana, Lundine, Watkins, Stanton, Wylie, Green, and Bethune. Chairman ASHLEY. The subcommittee will come to order. This morning, the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development begins 2 days of oversight hearings on the Indian and Alaskan Native housing program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Beginning in December of 1978, the subcommittee staff at my direction began an intensive review of this program. Since then, numerous discussions have been held with tribal and Native leaders, Indian housing authorities, administration officials, public interest groups and other House and Senate committees concerned with Indian affairs. The staff also visited a number of Indian and native American housing authorities throughout the country, and, for the first time in the subcommittee's history, made an onsite examination of housing in Alaska. The housing needs of native Americans are substantial. Meeting these needs is an extremely complex and difficult task. Cultural, religious, and political factors often appear to conflict with existing housing assistance approaches. The remoteness of reservations and villages, and their unique topographic and climatologic conditions adds to this complexity. In addition, the unique status of tribal land and the trust relationship between recognized tribes and the Federal Government, while necessary to protect native Americans, tends to further restrict the availability of decent housing on reservations. It is estimated that virtually half of all housing on reservations is in a substandard condition. With the influx of nonreservation Indians back to the reservations and the population growth from within, the housing needs on reservations has been growing rather than abating. |