11.5 percent and the seasonally adjusted rate for the four months of 1971 was above 12 percent. Equally as disturbing is the four month increase in prices for selected communities. These increases are contained in Table II. To properly assess the total amount that prices are likely to increase in these selected sites, the percentage increases should be seasonally adjusted. Table 4 shows the large regional variation in price increases, e.g. Kansas City as of May has 28.1 percent increase in prices while Seattle has a 5.6 percent increase.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY-SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND SEWER CONSTRUCTION

1 Calculated at a 17-percent real annual increase in construction activity.

2 Calculated at 3 percent of capital stock.

Calculated at 5 percent of capital stock.

Backlog at beginning of period: $2,700,000,000.
Completion based on 3-year lag period.

1980

Senator CHILES. Our next witness will be Mr. Robert W. Maffin, the chairman of the Steering Committee of the National Ad Hoc Housing Committee.

Mr. Maffin, we are delighted to have you here. I know that you have got a fairly lengthy statement. If there is any way you can paraphrase that for us we will put your entire statement in the record. We are operating under some time constraints.

STATEMENT OF ROBERT W. MAFFIN, CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL AD HOC HOUSING COALITION, ACCOMPANIED BY JAMES TWOMEY, VICE CHAIRMAN AND EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, NONPROFIT HOUSING CENTER; JAMES H. HARVEY, SECRETARY-TREASURER, HOUSING COMPONENTS OF THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL RIGHTS; REV. ROBERT E. JOHNSON, CHAIRMAN, INTERRELIGIOUS COALITION FOR HOUSING; AND TIMOTHY D. NAEGELE, COORDINATOR AND GENERAL COUNSEL TO THE AD HOC COALITION

Mr. MAFFIN. I completely understand, Mr. Chairman. I have with me other people in the coalition, Mr. James Twomey, who is vice chairman and also director of the Nonprofit Housing Center, Mr. James Harvey, who is secretary-treasurer, and also director of the housing components of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and Rev. Robert Johnson, in the Interreligious Coalition on Housing, and Mr. Timothy Naegele, who is coordinator and general counsel to the ad hoc coalition.

In addition to our prepared statement, of which you have copies, Mr. Chairman, I will paraphrase; there are some supporting documents which we would like to have entered into the record.

Senator CHILES. We will be happy to enter those into the record. Mr. MAFFIN. I am Robert Maffin and I am chairman of the National Ad Hoc Housing Coalition. We are here because the issue with which this committee is dealing has impacted heavily upon the housing needs. This coalition is composed of over half a hundred national organizations organized in the early part of this year and has been followed by local coalitions formed and being formed across the country. The coalitions of labor, minority groups, religious groups, financial interests, contractors, tenants, landlords, professionals and a variety of others.

We are before the committee today because housing is involved in this issue with which you are dealing.

Housing like so many other social programs is caught in the web of conflicting commitments and policies between the legislative and executive branches of the Government.

We are here because housing is affected by recent announcements that programs now law by legislative enactment and Executive signature are to be substantially or severely cut back, suspended or terminated during the remainder of this fiscal year and all of fiscal 1974.

Assisted housing, that is, rent supplement, section 235, 236, public housing, are suspended as of January 5, 1973.