Later a look at the International Response to the Ebola Outbreak in west africa. Wednesday the Senate Banking Committee Held a hearing on freddie mac, fannie mae and the state of the Housing Mortgage industry. Congressman mel watt took the updated members on new efforts to assist homeowners. This is 90 minutes. I call this hearing, your honor, welcome back to the committee. Since this is likely my last hearing regarding gses i would like to encourage my colleagues to for the past three years, we and our staff have spent count less hours wrestling with the possible solutions and pittal falls. Some options are not practical, while others are too it logical, yet we still need to find a solution. The enterprises remain trapped today. Fhfa continues to perform the dual role of both regulating and rating the business of the largest entities in the Mortgage Market. This is not sustainable. And there is no consensus in Congress Regarding how to move forward. All the while, the credit box remai
Like you were at some of these meetings where some of these things were discussed no, the nsa was there, i just got the tapes. Im sorry. So we dont have a public listing, per se, but in the first phase of power africa, we did very carefully, through a rigorous interagency process, discuss which would be the six focus countries. And the factors that you describe are, indeed, many of the things that we looked at, to try to assess who would be the good partners. And we will go through a similar process as we think about the expansion. One of the ones that i theres plenty to say about all of them, but one of the ones that ill just spend a moment on is the host countrys commitment. Because as some of the other testimony alluded to, if youre trying to have viable electric utilities, if youre trying to solve some of the problems that are private sector, investors have encountered, in trying to do viable deals, youve got to have a commitment to do things differently. So that was a very one of
Work on this work force component perspective. And despite the federal Housing Finance agencys concerns, we are confident that San Franciscos program now can move forward. Again, weve seen other jurisdictions do this throughout the state of california. And because the fhfa concerns are doing all we can as a city to protect our owners and give them the comfort and certainty they need to participate in this program. Governor brown recently passed in his budget a reserve fund for pace programs in the state of california that will address the fhfas concerns and ensure that fannie mae and freddie mack will noting negatively impacted by these programs. San francisco will be participating in the state reserve fund so that our Property Owners here in San Francisco are fully protected. In the end of the day green finance sf will further cement our citys National Role as a leader in reducing the adverse effectses of Climate Change and make it easier for Property Owners in our neighborhoods to ma
I am particularly want to thank pat and josh for their strong work on this work force component perspective. And despite the federal Housing Finance agencys concerns, we are confident that San Franciscos program now can move forward. Again, weve seen other jurisdictions do this throughout the state of california. And because the fhfa concerns are doing all we can as a city to protect our owners and give them the comfort and certainty they need to participate in this program. Governor brown recently passed in his budget a reserve fund for pace programs in the state of california that will address the fhfas concerns and ensure that fannie mae and freddie mack will noting negatively impacted by these programs. San francisco will be participating in the state reserve fund so that our Property Owners here in San Francisco are fully protected. In the end of the day green finance sf will further cement our citys National Role as a leader in reducing the adverse effectses of Climate Change and
Literacy services to break inter generational cycles of it literacy. There is also project money which is a great innovative program, learner driven approach to Financial Literacy in our communities ~ and the wednesday night readers project Read Book Club that promotes the joy of reading to new readers. The city and county of San Francisco has been pleased to recognize and honor the staff before, but i think on its 30th anniversary, i think its really fitting that later well have a resolution in honor of project read that well vote upon. But i think in todays Board Meeting commending them is appropriate as we celebrate the 30 years. So, before we close well be declaring hopefully with a unanimous vote december 10th, 2013 as project read day in San Francisco. I wanted to thank marisa [speaker not understood] for writing the great article the day after thanksgiving that gave a human side [speaker not understood] who the amazing tutors are and who makeup the program as well. So, tonight 3