HUD Archives: HUD AWARDS MORE THAN $65 MILLION TO PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITIES IN NORTH CAROLINA TO IMPROVE, PRESERVE PUBLIC HOUSING ACROSS THE STATE

HUD No. GFO 10-14
Chris Stearns
(336) 547-4000 ext. 2064

For Release
Thursday
June 17, 2010

HUD AWARDS MORE THAN $65 MILLION TO PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITIES IN NORTH CAROLINA TO IMPROVE, PRESERVE PUBLIC HOUSING ACROSS
THE STATE

GREENSBORO - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today awarded $65,645,480 to
public housing authorities in North Carolina. The funds will allow these agencies to make major capital improvements
to their public housing units. This funding is part of $2.3 billion HUD awarded today to 3,131 agencies across the
U.S., the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. To view the full list of grantees, visit HUD's website.

"Housing authorities will add this funding to the $4 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 they received last year to continue addressing long-standing capital improvements that public housing communities need," said Ed Jennings, Jr., Southeast Regional Administrator, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. "This funding will also stimulate the economy and create jobs in these communities."

The funding announced today is allocated through HUD's Capital Fund Program that provides annual funding to public housing authorities to develop, finance, and/or modernize the public housing in their communities. This funding can
be used to make large-scale improvements such as new roofs and to make energy-efficient upgrades to replace old plumbing and electrical systems.

While these grants have provided important funding to housing authorities for the past 75 years, HUD is proposing in its 2011 budget a new initiative - Preservation, Enhancement and Transforming Rental Assistance (PETRA) - that,
will offer housing authorities options to enable them to leverage public and private financing to address capital
needs and make public housing units affordable for the long term. HUD estimates that unfunded capital needs of the nation's 1.2 million public housing units range from $20 to $30 billion.

PETRA would enable federal housing programs to leverage $7 billion in other capital in the first year - and as much
as $25 billion in the years to come - giving owners of affordable housing access to the resources they need to preserve this housing into the future. In its 2011 budget proposal before Congress, HUD is requesting $350 million
to fund the first phase of the PETRA initiative, which will preserve 300,000 units of public and assisted housing; streamline and increase program administrative efficiency; and enhance housing choice for residents.

HUD Assistant Secretary Sandra Henriquez said, "This funding is a great resource for housing authorities, but we believe this new approach will give housing authorities a better way to address their capital needs over the long
haul."

The table below presents the amounts that HUD awarded to housing authorities in North Carolina.

Housing Authority	Housing Authority City	Amount Granted
Ahoskie Housing Authority	Ahoskie	$177,321
Andrews Housing Authority	Andrews	$79,328
Asheboro Housing Authority	Asheboro	$325,439
Ayden Housing Authority	Ayden	$261,011
Belmont Housing Authority	Belmont	$85,086
Benson Housing Authority	Benson	$335,401
Bladenboro Housing Authority	Bladenboro	$134,649
Brevard Housing Authority	Brevard	$262,893
Burlington Housing Authority	Burlington	$682,991
City of Albemarle Department of Public Housing	Albemarle	$352,334
City of Hickory Public Housing Authority	Hickory	$569,682
City of Mount Holly, Dept. of Housing	Mount Holly	$73,470
City of Shelby, Department of Housing	Shelby	$286,118
Clarkton Housing Authority	Clarkton	$91,137
Dunn Housing Authority	Dunn	$252,268
Eastern Carolina Regional Housing Authority	Goldsboro	$1,306,470
Elizabeth City Housing Authority	Elizabeth City	$589,434
Elizabethtown Housing Authority	Elizabethtown	$47,132
Fairmont Housing Authority	Fairmont	$83,986
Farmville Housing Authority	Farmville	$272,221
Fayetteville Metropolitan Housing Authority	Fayetteville	$1,883,376
Forest City Housing Authority	Forest City	$260,375
Gastonia Housing Authority	Gastonia	$724,915
Hamlet Housing Authority	Hamlet	$400,618
Hendersonville Housing Authority	Hendersonville	$653,423
Hertford Housing Authority	Hertford	$139,267
Hot Springs Housing Authority	Hot Springs	$86,135
Housing Authority of the City of Asheville	Asheville	$2,417,149
Housing Authority of the City of Charlotte	Charlotte	$5,804,656
Housing Authority of the City of Concord	Concord	$259,991
Housing Authority of the City of Goldsboro	Goldsboro	$2,300,006
Housing Authority of the City of Greensboro	Greensboro	$4,335,852
Housing Authority of the City of Greenville	Greenville	$1,227,970
Housing Authority of the City of High Point	High Point	$2,064,848
Housing Authority of the City of Kinston	Kinston	$1,351,898
Housing Authority of the City of Lumberton	Lumberton	$1,303,946
Housing Authority of the City of New Bern	New Bern	$922,191
Housing Authority of the City of Raleigh	Raleigh	$3,185,617
Housing Authority of the City of Salisbury	Salisbury	$965,777
Housing Authority of the City of Wilmington	Wilmington	$2,513,192
Housing Authority of the City of Wilson	Wilson	$1,370,614
Housing Authority of the City of Winston-Salem	Winston-Salem	$3,385,903
Housing Authority of the County of Wake	Zebulon	$576,285
Housing Authority of the Town of Beaufort	Beaufort	$156,227
Housing Authority of the Town of Laurinburg	Laurinburg	$886,038
Housing Authority of the Town of Mount Airy	Mount Airy	$535,712
Housing Programs of the Town of Murphy	Murphy	$129,625
Kings Mountain Housing Authority	Kings Mountain	$435,313
Lenoir Housing Authority	Lenoir	$234,754
Lexington Housing Authority	Lexington	$454,553
Lincolnton Housing Authority	Lincolnton	$418,823
Madison County Housing Authority	Mars Hill	$64,911
Madison Housing Authority	Madison	$77,964
Mars Hill Housing Authority	Mars Hill	$67,263
Marshall Housing Authority	Marshall	$70,313
Maxton Housing Authority	Maxton	$156,981
Mid-East Regional Housing Authority	Washington	$595,807
Monroe Housing Authority	Monroe	$320,343
Mooresville Housing Authority	Mooresville	$186,890
Morganton Housing Authority	Morganton	$450,386
Mount Gilead Housing Authority	Mount Gilead	$48,741
Mount Olive Housing Authority	Mount Olive	$35,772
North Wilkesboro Dept. of Housing Comm. Dev.	North Wilkesboro	$354,153
Northwestern Regional Housing Authority	Boone	$141,829
Oxford Housing Authority	Oxford	$520,406
Pembroke Housing Authority	Pembroke	$400,406
Plymouth Housing Authority	Plymouth	$299,633
Princeville Housing Authority	Princeville	$72,883
Redevelopment Commission of the Town of Tarboro	Tarboro	$304,233
Roanoke Rapids Housing Authority	Roanoke Rapids	$389,627
Roanoke-Chowan Regional Roanoke-Chowan Regional Housing Authority	Gaston	$660,976
Robersonville Housing Authority	Robersonville	$162,438
Robeson County, Department of Housing	Lumberton	$513,463
Rockingham Housing Authority	Rockingham	$351,270
Rocky Mount Housing Authority	Rocky Mount	$1,477,803
Rowan County Housing Authority	Salisbury	$316,471
Roxboro Housing Authority	Roxboro	$349,076
Sanford Housing Authority	Sanford	$756,098
Selma Housing Authority	Selma	$264,734
Smithfield Housing Authority	Smithfield	$306,907
Southern Pines Housing Authority	Southern Pines	$172,686
Spruce Pine Housing Authority	Spruce Pine	$154,406
Star Housing Authority	Star	$43,970
Statesville Housing Authority	Statesville	$876,330
The Graham Housing Authority	Graham	$256,630
The Housing Authority of the City of Durham	Durham	$3,437,836
The New Edenton Housing Authority	Edenton	$164,293
The New Randleman Housing Authority	Randleman	$113,884
The New Reidsville Housing Authority	Reidsville	$167,415
Thomasville Housing Authority	Thomasville	$389,098
Town of Chapel Hill Department of Housing	Chapel Hill	$594,401
Troy Housing Authority	Troy	$136,374
Valdese Housing Authority	Valdese	$187,014
Vance County Housing Authority	Henderson	$130,822
Wadesboro Housing Authority	Wadesboro	$297,530
Washington Housing Authority	Washington	$672,377
Waynesville Housing Authority	Waynesville	$156,109
Whiteville Housing Authority	Whiteville	$89,951
Williamston Housing Authority	Williamston	$233,157
North Carolina Total		$65,645,480

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HUD AWARDS MORE THAN $65 MILLION TO PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITIES IN NORTH CAROLINA TO IMPROVE, PRESERVE PUBLIC HOUSING ACROSS THE STATE

HUD AWARDS MORE THAN $65 MILLION TO PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITIES IN NORTH CAROLINA TO IMPROVE, PRESERVE PUBLIC HOUSING ACROSS
THE STATE