Barbara Boxer: “I wish to thank Senator Corker for his remarks and join in with his support for Carol Galante. She has a long and…”

“I wish to thank Senator Corker for his remarks and join in with his support for Carol Galante. She has a long and distinguished career of building and promoting affordable housing, and she is very well qualified. She began her career as a housing coordinator for the city of Santa Barbara, rising to become the city's housing and redevelopment manager. I want to point out that Santa Barbara is a magnificent part of my State. I have a beautiful State. At the time, they didn't have much in the way of moderate-income housing, and that was part of the very important work she did. She moved on to Eden Housing, a nonprofit affordable-housing developer, where she developed over 400 homes as a project manager. She eventually took over as executive director. She later joined BRIDGE Housing as vice president, and in 1996 she took the helm of that organization as its president and chief executive. BRIDGE is the largest nonprofit developer of affordable- income and mixed-use developments in California. While she was there, Carol oversaw the creation of 13,000 affordable homes for more than 35,000 Californians and programs that helped one-fourth of their residents advance to home ownership because she knew that was the goal. Home ownership, even after all we have been through, is the dream, and she understands that.…”