Word: staab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Comptroller General Elmer Staats, not Staab, who said those nice things about Patricia Harris as Secretary of HUD [July...
...purpose. Declared one veteran official: "For the first time, I think we have a sense of mission and movement." Within the agency, she stressed affirmative action in promoting women, blacks and hispanics. Of Harris' appointees half are women, 21% are black and 7% are hispanics. Comptroller General Elmer Staab praised HUD, under Harris, for becoming "a forerunner in dealing with program fraud." Harris strongly pushed subsidized housing for the poor, the repair rather than abandonment of rundown buildings in public housing projects, and a graduated mortgage payment plan that helps young people buy houses by starting with low monthly...