[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 37 (Tuesday, March 23, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E424]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




HONORING DANIEL J. WUENSCHEL ON HIS RETIREMENT AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF 
                    THE CAMBRIDGE HOUSING AUTHORITY

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                        HON. MICHAEL E. CAPUANO

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, March 23, 2004

  Mr. CAPUANO. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure but great sadness 
that I rise today to honor Daniel J. Wuenschel on his impending 
retirement from the Cambridge Housing Authority.
  Dan has served as executive director of the Cambridge Housing 
Authority since 1978. During his tenure, he has been a tireless 
advocate for affordable housing in the City of Cambridge. Dan's work in 
the reconstruction and redevelopment of the city's aging public housing 
stock has garnered several State and national awards and served as a 
prototype for a national public housing redevelopment program. He also 
directed CHA efforts to produce over 700 additional units of affordable 
housing in more than 15 different locations throughout the city. His 
work has been essential in ensuring that Cambridge has an economically 
diverse population at a time of skyrocketing housing costs in 
Massachusetts.
  Dan has been honored with the 1986 Governor's Design Award, the 1989 
Massachusetts Historical Commission's Preservation Award, the 1990 Ford 
Foundation/Harvard University Innovations in State & Local Government 
Award, and a 1998 Boston Society of Architects' Citation for Urban 
Planning. The CHA has also been recognized many times for its superior 
work in providing service to its residents.
  Dan has also been an innovator in the public housing field. The CHA 
recently opened Neville Manor at Fresh Pond, a 71-unit, mixed-income 
assisted living facility and Neville Center, a 112 bed skilled nursing 
facility. He also secured a HOPE VI grant to rehabilitate the John F. 
Kennedy Apartments, a 69-unit affordable housing complex for seniors. 
CHA has also been instrumental in supporting numerous nonprofit 
affordable housing developers in Cambridge.
  As executive director, he led the Cambridge Housing Authority in its 
role as cofounder of the National Council of Large Public Housing 
Authorities. He became the first president of CLPHA, an office he held 
for 6 years, during which time CLPHA became the premier industry group 
representing housing authority interests at the national level and here 
in Washington, DC.
  Mr. Speaker, Dan Wuenschel has provided a home for thousands of 
families and my district and this country are the better for it. We are 
extremely grateful for all of his work, and he will be sorely missed. 
Dan, congratulations on a job well done.

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