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More than $27 million in community development grants has been approved in Tennessee. The grants will help the community with health and safety initiatives and housing rehabilitation.

The program is funded through HUD and administered in Tennessee by the Department of Economic and Community Development.

President Bush has proposed a $726 billion tax relief package thatwould drop that total to "only" $27.2 trillion. While that amount seems sufficient to satisfy Washington's spending appetite, a groupof Senators is opposing any tax cut larger than $350 billion.

With construction costs and interest rates soaring, developers are struggling to make the numbers work for their affordable housing projects.

Martin Luther King Youth Center serves underprivileged kids ages 5 to 13 in the Somerset County area.

Struggling homeowners in five local counties will be able to fix their houses through $9,232,136 in federal pandemic funds. The COVID-19 American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Whole-Home Repairs Program is f...

"Showing compassion for the person who is hoarding takes nothing away from what you naturally feel for the animals."

(Archived document, may contain errors) 1024 March 16, 1995 IMPROVING AMERICAS HOUSING BY SHUTTING DOWN HUD INTRODUCTION Members of the new Congress have begun to scrutinize the costly and counterpro ductive housing programs of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Developmen t HUD This careful examination is long overdue. Although HUD has been criticized for many years, Congress until now has shown little interest in conducting a bottom-up re view of the agency or in questioning the need for...

Want to offset emergency spending? There's plenty to cut.

(Archived document, may contain errors) 729 October 2,19 89 INTRODUCI'ION Thousands of compassionate Americans will march on Washington October 7th to draw attention to the strategy that they believe will win the war on homelessness. Their prescription: a massive increase in federal money to help construct hous ing. Their slogan: "Housing NOW!"