Beck Takes Over Housing Post

A. Wayne Mittleider, executive director of the Idaho Housing Agency, resigned Wednesday and was replaced with state Sen. Rod Beck, R-Boise.

The change is effective immediately. Beck said he was sending his resignation from the Idaho Senate to Gov. Phil Batt, who will name a replacement from a list of nominees from the GOP legislative district committee.

Mittleider headed the quasi-state agency for nearly eight years.

Beck will receive about $97,000. Mittleider was paid $108,000.

Since the Idaho Housing Agency was created in 1972, it has helped 57,248 families obtain housing. The agency has financed 26,450 single family mortgages through $1.4 billion in bonds.

The agency has financed 17,556 single family mortgages with just over $1 billion in bonds since mid-1987.