Audio from Oregon House Consumer Protection Hardest Hit Briefing Wednesday May 26th

I have created and posted to the Internet Archive an MP3 audio file HERE of the Hardest Hit briefing before the Oregon House Consumer Protection Committee today, Wednesday May 26th.

(I have not yet listened to the file, and will try to add an observations about file IF I get a chance to listen Thursday or Friday. I encourage OTHERS to HELP me out and listen and if anything is new, add comments using the comment icon at the bottom of this post).

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

HousingPolicy.Org Has Posted Materials, Audio, and Wiki from Recent State and Local Housing Policy Conference.

Formal title of conference in Chicago was Solutions for Working Families: 2009 Learning Conference on State and Local Housing Policy.

Printed materials are posted from the page HERE.
Audio of various keynotes can be found HERE.
A communications focused Wiki from the conference is HERE.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

Audio and PDF: House Preservation Hearing Yesterday.

IPOD/MP3 Audio HERE is from yesterday's House Financial Services Subcommittee hearing.

Hearing was very short, consisting only of written testimony and statements. (As file is about 68 MB's, I would not download unless you really want to hear oral version of written statements).

I have consolidated those written statements, and statements for the record, into a single PDF file HERE. (Use bookmarks symbol in left pane to navigate to testimony from specific organizations).

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

IPOD AUDIO: 12/06/07 House Financial Services Hearing on Foreclosure Prevention.

HERE is MP3 audio of House Financial Services Committee held Thursday 12/06/07 with the subject Loan Modification and Foreclosure Prevention. [It was a long hearing, file is 167 MB in size].

Website for this hearing, with individual PDF's with the written testimony of three panels of witnesses, is HERE.

Exclusive IPOD Audio: House Hearing, Improving Mortgage Markets.

The Wednesday House Financial Services Committee hearing on the subject must have been one of the longest housing related hearings evah, lasting 8 1/2 hours.

I have loaded the first 8 hours of the hearing into a single .MP3 file HERE (and when I chance I will see if I can load the remaining half hour). Downloading caution:This file is 337 MB's in size, so plan on attending a meeting or get lunch while this downloads.

Exclusive IPOD Audio , House Mark to Market Hearing.

The subject hearing was held on Tuesday October 23, 2007.I have combined all written testimony scheduled for delivery at the hearing into a single PDF file HERE.

A MP3 audio file of the hearing is HERE. It's 45 MB and 1 hour and 5 minutes in duration. (Audio begins more than 9 minutes after the start of the hearing, as the original feed for the hearing did not include audio until that point).

MP3 Audio from Late Payments Hearing: Chris Shays to HUD Chief Financial Officer,“You Have Made a Fool of Yourself”.

[Time Correction]

One of the reasons I take the time to create .MP3 audio files from congressional hearings is that they provide a unique way of hearing the personal interaction between committee members and those testifying, and between the members themselves. (To avoid wasting time, I try to fit the listening into my existing daily routine. I listen to the MP3 files on my IPOD when I am out getting my daily exercise, or while driving in the car).

The latest hearing on HUD late rental assistance payments provides a good example of the value added by the .MP3 files. After minutes of exasperating and evasive testimony from HUD’s Chief Financial Officer the long serving Connecticut Representative Chris Shay (R) reaches a boiling point telling the CFO [at 1:12:05] “ You have made a fool of yourself”.

Listening to the testimony one also learns that the CFO relied on a verbal legal opinion forbidding use of prior year funds to make rental payments, even with an existing rental assistance contract in place. A representative from the HUD Office of Legal Counsel testified that they had not been asked to write a legal opinion, and the CFO testified that it might taken until the end of the year to have such a legal opinion written and available to Congress.

The hearing .MP3 audio is HERE.

IPOD Video and Audio, Foreclosure Hearing--Frank, Bernanke, and Jackson.

HERE is a 15 minute (50+ MB) IPOD VIDEO download of the remarks of House Financial Services Director Barney Frank, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, and HUD Secretary Jackson at yesterdays Sept 20 th. House Financial Services Committee hearing housing foreclosures. (I can confirm that this plays successfully on my video IPOD).

For those who can't view IPOD video, HERE's a Windows Media VIDEO Version (75+ MB).

And for those of you who only want audio, HERE's a MP3 AUDIO version (22+ MB).