Randy Neugebauer: “I think what you hear from both of us is frustration that things haven't moved along faster. What I would point out to…”

“I think what you hear from both of us is frustration that things haven't moved along faster. What I would point out to the gentleman and to the folks on the other side of the aisle is the point that we have been making that we believe that this keeps people in limbo, causes them not to begin to make some kind of a permanent housing decision. I use the example that in New Orleans today there are about 2,000 units of public housing that are available today, but they have about 400 or 500 vacancies that people are not applying for. Secondly, they have had to go back on a number of occasions because those units have been vacant so long, they had to go back and make them ready again. In that climate, when a unit sits vacant for a short period of time or an extended period of time, the unit gets stale and they have to go back and do some mold mitigation and some other things because there is not someone occupying it. The point here is we have extended the benefits. The benefits are in this bill for all of the people that have been talked about here this morning.”