David Price: “I want to strongly support this amendment and commend the gentleman for offering it. He is highlighting horrible…”

“I want to strongly support this amendment and commend the gentleman for offering it. He is highlighting horrible conditions with the situation in Alexander County, Illinois. HUD's IG has concluded that HUD should have done more to oversee this decades-long situation, these deteriorating conditions at the Alexander County Housing Authority and has made multiple recommendations to address the situation and to ensure that something like this doesn't recur. In fiscal year 2018, our House THUD report requested that HUD work with the community to find adequate housing for displaced residents, and to quickly investigate the root causes of the situation. The base bill, I am happy to say, does fund the IG account above the request level, partly to help with work on this issue. And we have also increased funding in the Public Housing Operating and Capital Funds to provide more resources to public housing authorities for capital improvements and better management. Mr. Chairman, we are continuing to monitor this situation. We expect HUD to implement the Inspector General's recommendations as quickly as possible. So I urge adoption of the amendment. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.”