[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11925]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                      NATIONAL HOMEOWNERSHIP WEEK

  (Ms. SANCHEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. SANCHEZ. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to discuss homeownership in 
America. Buying a home is a dream for many Americans. People want a 
place where they can raise their children, where neighbors come 
together to form a safe community, and ultimately, where they can 
comfortably grow older.
  A memory I have from when I was young was my grandmother. She came to 
this country. She worked 7 days a week, every day that I can remember, 
walking half a mile to get on the bus and go to work. She was a 
restaurant worker. She would come back late at night after dark. I lost 
her a few years ago. The last few things she said to me was she had two 
dreams she did not accomplish in the United States: one, to visit the 
Pope; and two, to own her own home.
  This week is National Homeownership Week and it is a time that we can 
appreciate the growth our Nation has made in homeownership, and it is 
also when we realize how much more we have to do to help people own 
that little piece of the American dream, their own home.
  I hope that this week we all gather together and work very hard to 
ensure that there are ways, like CRA and other ways, to help people 
become homeowners in the United States.

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