HUD awards nearly $19 million to Native American communities crookstontimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from crookstontimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Olson v. United States, 2021 WL 137911 (Fed. Cl. 2021), lessees of trust land on the Yakama Reservation, sued the United States in the Court of Federal Claims under the
Tucker Act, contending that the Wapato Irrigation Project (WIP), which provided irrigation water to customers within the reservation, had violated its implicit agreement to provide water for their crops. The Court dismissed on the grounds that the United States, though acting as trustee for the trust beneficiaries, was not a party to the leases: “Each of these documents states that the lease or permit is a contract entered into ‘by and between the Indian or Indians named below (the Secretary of the Interior acting for and on behalf of the Indians) hereinafter called the ‘landlord,’ and an individual tenant. … Long-standing precedent from the Supreme Court, along with more recent binding precedent from the Federal Circuit, makes clear that the exercise of such
Over $200,000 awarded to Iowa s Sac & Fox Tribe for affordable housing kwwl.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kwwl.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
HUD awards LRBOI over $290,000 for affordable housing
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Feb. 26, 2021
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Larry Romanelli, LRBOI Ogema; Kenneth LaHaye, LRBOI food distribution program supervisor; and Joseph P. Galvan, HUD regional administrator present a check representing $700,000 as part of HUD s Indian Community Development Block Grant program in July. (File photo)
LANSING The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is awarding the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians $291,767 for affordable housing, the department announced Friday.
HUD announced more than $652 million in Indian Housing Block Grant formula funding for eligible Native American tribes and tribally designated housing entities to carry out affordable housing activities in tribal communities. This includes nearly $15 million for 12 tribes in Michigan.
Utah Native American tribes receive $4 2 million for affordable housing fox13now.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from fox13now.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.