Mr. President. in connection with the remarks of the Senator from California. I want to stress the importance of continuing a most worthy and important migrant program by the Office of Economic Opportunty: the SelfHelp Housing projects. Over the last 21/2 years I have visited migrant labor camps from my own State of New York to California. The conditions I have seen were often indescribablefamilies crowded into shacks without the barest minimum of decent sanitary or health facilities. often without protection from the elements. Many of these units have been condemned as unfit for human habitation. Yet they still stand. they still house many of the men and women and children who gather the food for America. The selfhelp housing program. run by OEO. offers the prospect for change. Built with simple. inexpensive material. they are constructed in large part by the migrants themselves whose labor helps to pay for the houses they own. The projects I saw in Visalia. Calif.. and elsewhere. were well kept and attractive and the pride of ownership was evident in the faces of the workers and their families. This is the kind of program that can begin to provide a measure of decent living for our migrant workers. And it Is a program which I urge the Senate to support.
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