HUD releases $79 million to R.I. for housing assistance
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Rhode Island will receive over $79 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to improve affordable housing and prevent homelessness, U.S. Senator Jack Reed announced today. The housing assistance funds are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which Reed supported. The legislation includes $13.6 billion for HUD projects and programs nationwide, of which about $10 billion (75 percent) was allocated today. Rhode Island's $79,089,379 share of the HUD funds includes: * $36,561,674 rental assistance for Section 8 housing improvements, repairs and maintenance * 18,856,530 for the Public Housing Capital Fund Program to enable local public housing agencies to improve the state's affordable housing infrastructure * $11,933,403 for the HOME Program/Tax Credit Assistance Program (TCAP) grants to help state housing finance agencies jump-start production of stalled affordable rental housing projects that rely on low-income housing tax credits * $6,977,808 for homlessess prevention -- shared between the state, Providence, Pawtucket and Woonsocket -- to pay housing and other associated costs in the private market * $4,559,776 for the Community Development Block Grant Program for Providence, Pawtucket, Woonsocket, Cranston, Warwick and East Providence to rehabilitate affordable housing and improve key public facilities, which can help stabilize communities and create jobs * $200,188 for the Native American Housing Block Grant program, to fund energy efficient modernization and renovation of housing maintained by Native American housing programs
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Spend this buying foreclosed homes. Turn them into public housing. It's a bargain and the state will acquire land, an actual asset.
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Sorry, I disagree with the suggestion to turn foreclosed homes into public housing. If I wanted to move next to the projects I would have. Instead, give hard working people WHO QUALIFY an opportunity to buy a home. What partially got us into this mess is 'giving' people homes before they did their financial research and preparation and also before they could afford it. For the most part, people who have an investment in something take better care of it...I see it all the time. I don't make alot of money, but I got all my "ducks in a row", went to RI Housing and qualified for an affordable mortgage. Other people can do the same.
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Public Housing is not the projects anymore! That's part of the problem- we are all us versus them! There are A LOT of hard working people who can only afford an apartment with a subsidy. These are the people who serve you at restaurants or take you info at the hospital. Just because they don't make lots of money does not mean they don't deserve a home. the idea of projects went away a long time ago. "public housing" is everywhere. we should do away with that term
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I have been following this about the Federal $79 million for Hud Housing.....I clean apartments for low income people.......Let me tell you how disgusting some of the apartments are in Meadow Brook Terrace....Tile floors lifting and cracking...Plastic Molding along walls pulling away.......... One of my people elderly man has asked nomorous times for this to be fixed....What do they do the maintaniance people...They bring in a single tile replace the lifted tile and forget the cracked tiles....and they callthem selfs maintance.....Listen if one of there parents ...friends or loved ones lived like this they be hopping all over the Hud housing..........I didnt see that this place was on a list for upgrading the property and let these people live with some dignity...I see Lots of Providence and South Providence on the list...........I agree with the above some of these forclosed apartment houses could be bought up by city and redone as affordable housing for families.......FAMILIES...Not the drug addicts and Alcaholics that never worked a day in their lifes but reap the wealth of low income so they have money to run to nearest street corner for their fix or wait by the mailbox for their check so they can hobble up to Haxtons Liquir store......................
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