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Poarch Creeks Receive $1.85 Million Housing Grant
February 23, 2012
The Poarch Band of Creek Indians have been awarded a $1.85 million Indian Housing Block Grant.
The $1,859,361 grant from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is intended to primarily benefit low-income families living on Indian reservations or in other communities. The award to the Poarch Band of Creek Indians was part of $108 million in additional Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) allocations to 68 tribes in 19 states announced Tuesday.
“These funds are making a real difference in tribal communities each and every day,” said HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan. “Projects include affordable housing, infrastructure upgrades, community centers and safety programs that every community needs to thrive. These efforts are part of a broader commitment to ensure Native American communities can build their economies in response to their needs and as they see fit.”
Eligible activities for the funds include housing development, assistance to housing developed under the Indian Housing Program, housing services to eligible families and individuals, crime prevention and safety, and model activities that provide creative approaches to solving affordable housing problems.
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5 Responses to “Poarch Creeks Receive $1.85 Million Housing Grant”
This money from HUD is not a hand up, hand out, a gift, nor is it anything other than a requirement by treaty law. Nitushi Humma
we can always go borrow more from china.
Right?
Nothing against the Tribe at all, but this should have waited for better finantial times. Right now, this nation is broke, broke, broke. None of us would go borrow money and divide it up and give it to strangers unless the money did’nt really belong to us? Someone else said that this would bring jobs, but who’s going to work to pay off the debt this generates?
Atmore looks like a disgrace, I hope we see good change in the coming
year with all this federal money, after all AMERICA borrowed to do all these
hand ups. Every one seems to really complain about the President, but they
sure jump when federal funds come their way.
Another benefit of receiving HUD housing monies into a community is that new jobs are created. New federal dollars are supplemented with Tribal dollars, and performing project tasks causes additional money to flow into a community. Economic development goes forward and more people have access to decent housing. So, it is not only Poarch Creek that benefits, the whole community benefits directly or indirectly when the Tribe receives federal grant funds.