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Century Awards Final Contract For Housing Rehab From $750K Grant
July 7, 2012
The Town of Century has awarded the final three contracts under a Community Development Block Grant to rehabilitate private homes in the town.
The town was awarded a $650,000 grant last year to rehabilitate or replace homes that are currently occupied by persons of low or moderate income. The town also received $100,000 in Residential Construction Mitigation Program Funds for hurricane retrofits.
The latest projects awarded were:
- 300 Front Street, owned by Charles H. and Wanda Therrell, $59,000 to Mike Motes Builders.
- 571 Church Street, owned by Maryland P. Bridges, $47,600 to Bill Walther Construction.
- 301 East Hecker, owned by Richard and Eva Carter, $15,000 to Mike Motes Builders.
Additional grant work was recently awarded at the 301 East Hecker home with $5,698 in rehabilitation costs and $7,000 in hurricane retrofits.
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7 Responses to “Century Awards Final Contract For Housing Rehab From $750K Grant”
A perfect example of what wrong with our government!! I really doubt our founding fathers intended for our government to fix people houses, feed people kids breakfast at school becouse the parents are too lazy, create jobs, provide housing, food stamps for able bodied people, pay for college for anyone that thinks they might want to attend……the list goes on and on!!!
It’s not that I begrudge them getting the work done if they can’t afford it themselves but…………….$59k? Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just build them another one?
Were these federal grants? Federal programs such as Liheap and Community Action programs do, or did, prior to that wonderful stimulus package of 2009, provide substantial benefits to low income redidential housing ajd to small business owners alike. Now they are just a way to put more money into the pockets of the federal employees that distribute the funds and the owners of larger, undertaxed contractors. Regardless of the program used, I am still happy for the person receiving help.
That’s right we shouldn’t be spending this tax money here in this country on people that may have paid income tax or may be paying income tax. We should put it with the billions that we send to countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan where the people there will use it to buy weapons to kill as many Americans as possible. After all sending money overseas must be good policy to both Democrats and Republicans, because neither have tried to do anything about it so far.
The government should let the citizens keep more of their money so that they can distribute it as they see fit. People should be ashamed to take this money.
Very cool!
Anyone know where us here in the Cantonment – Molino area can sign up for something like this? I know my house could use a good sprucing up at taxpayer expense, how about you?
Just another example of a perverse use of tax dollars.