CUOMO ANNOUNCES $19.9 MILLION IN HUD AID FOR HOUSING ELDERLY AND DISABLED IN NORTH CAROLINA AND $595.6 MILLION NATIONWIDE

In North Carolina, the HUD assistance will create: 202 apartment units for the elderly and 31 rental units for people with disabilities. It will also provide rental subsidies to residents of the housing for five years.

Nationwide, Cuomo said HUD is awarding $595.6 million to non-profits in 45 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico this week under the Section 202 Program for senior citizens and the Section 811 program for people with disabilities. The 202 program is awarding $501.3 million of the money and the 811 program is awarding $94.3 million.

On a national level, the HUD assistance will create: 6,006 apartment units for the elderly and 1,169 rental units for people with disabilities. It will provide rental subsidies for the units for five years.

"My Administration is committed to helping those who need it most," President Clinton said. "The men and women who spent decades working hard to build 20th Century America should not be left without a place to live in 21st Century America. By providing shelter to our most vulnerable citizens, we are improving the quality of life and building a better for everyone."

"America will not turn its back on older Americans and people with disabilities struggling to get by on very low incomes," Cuomo said. "Without HUD assistance, many of these Americans simply could not make it. They would be forced to live in slums, or doubled and tripled up with relatives in overcrowded housing, or sent to nursing homes or other institutions at greater taxpayer expense, or even forced into homelessness in the most extreme cases."

"The Section 202 and 811 programs are excellent programs," said Congresswoman Eva Clayton. "The most vulnerable among us, such as the disabled and elderly need and deserve our support. These housing program grants are highly competitive and are just one of many important resources needed to improve the quality of life for seniors and disabled North Carolinians."

"I am pleased to learn of these grant announcements to build needed housing for the elderly," Congressman Bob Etheridge said. "It is vitally important that we continue to build and maintain both safe and adequate housing for our state's senior citizens. It will not only provide a nice place to live but also the piece of mind many senior citizens and their families want so much."

The HUD aid is designed to provide housing for people 62 and older and adults with disabilities who have incomes below 50 percent of the area median. Nationally, 50 percent of median income amounts to less than $8,000 a year. Residents pay 30 percent of their income in rent, and HUD subsidies pay the remaining funds needed to operate the housing.

HUD provides funds to the non-profits in two forms:

• Capital advances. This is money that covers the cost od developing the housing. It does not need to repaid as long as the housing is available for occupancy by very low-income elderly or people with disabilities for at least 40 years.

• Project rental assistance. This goes to each non-profit to cover the difference between the resident's contribution toward rent and the cost of operating the project.

SECTION 202 -- ELDERLY HOUSING

		
	Project location: Greensboro, NC
			  Dolan Manor, Phase II	
	Capital advance:  $1,698,700
	Five-year rental subsidy:  $293,500 
	Non-profit sponsor:  St. Pius X Housing
			     Greensboro, NC
	Number units and project description: 24 units.  This project
        is the second phase of an existing 30-unit Section 202 facility
        which opened in 1985.  This second phase will further expand 
        a wide range of supportive services.
	Project location: Greensboro, NC
			  National Benevolent Association Project
	Capital advance:  $4,369,300
	Five year rental subsidy:  $721,000
	Non-profit sponsor: National Benevolent Association
			    St. Louis, MO
	Number units and project description: This project will 
        serve 59 residents with a total of 59 units provided.
	Project location: Red Springs, NC
		          Red Springs Elderly II
	Capital advance:  $2,722,700
	Five year rental subsidy: $440,000
	Non-profit sponsor: St. Joseph's of the Pines
			    Pinehurst, NC
	Number units and project description: This project, with 
        its 36 units, located in an Enterprise community, is 
        phase II of a project started in 1996.
	
	Project location: Washington, NC
			  St. John Housing
	Capital advance:  $2,690,300
	Five year rental subsidy: $440,000
	Non-profit sponsor: National Benevolent Association
			    St. Louis, MO
	Number units and project description: This project will serve 
        36 residents.
	Project location: Ahoskie, NC
			  Wactor Gardens
	Capital advance:  $842,600
	Five year rental subsidy: $134,500
	Non-profit sponsor:  Metropolitan Low Income Housing CDC, Inc.
			     Washington, NC
	Number units and project description: Eleven residents will 
        be served by this project.  The project will incorporate 
        energy efficient features.
	Project location: Roanoke Rapids, NC
		          John Wellons Foundation Project
	Capital advance:  $2,757,600
	Five year rental subsidy: $440,000
	Non-profit sponsor:  John H. Wellons Foundation, Inc
			     Dunn, NC
	Number units and project description: Thirty-six residents
        will be served by this project.
	SECTION 811 -- HOUSING FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

	Project location: Burlington, NC
		          ARC/HDS Alamance County Apartments
	Capital advance:  $353,900
	Five-year rental subsidy:  $61,500 
	Non-profit sponsor: The Arc of North Carolina
			    Greensboro, NC
	Number units and project description: Five apartments 
        will allow residents to live independently, with support
        from an adjacent quadruplex of other residents and 
        medical professionals. 
	Project location: Wilson, NC
			  MHA/NC Wilson County Apartments
	Capital advance:  $642,800
	Five-year rental subsidy: $98,000
	Non-profit sponsor: Mental Health Association
                            in North Carolina, Inc.
			    Raleigh, NC
	Number units and project description: 9 units will serve persons
        who have chronic mental illness, and specifically those with 
        hearing difficulties.
	Project location: Waynesville, NC
			  MHA/NC Haywood County Group Home
	Capital advance:  $342,000
	Five-year rental subsidy: $73,500 
	Non-profit sponsor: Mental Health Association
			    Raleigh, NC
	Number units and project description: This project is a six unit 
        group home for those persons who are chronically mentally ill.
	Project location: Jefferson, NC
			  ARC/HDS Ashe County Group Home #2
	Capital advance:  $341,200
	Five-year rental subsidy: $73,500
	Non-profit sponsor: The Arc of North Carolina
			    Greensboro, NC
	Number units and project description: This group home, the 
        second for the Association of Retarded Citizens, will serve 
        six people who are developmentally disabled.
	Project location: Burlington, NC
	Capital advance:  $322,900
	Five-year rental subsidy: $73,500
	Non-profit sponsor: Residential Treatment Services
			    Burlington, NC
	Number units and project description: This project is a 
        replacement home for the residents of the Fisher 
        Street Group Home, a building that is over 100 years 
        old.  This will provide modern facilities to six
        people who are chronically mentally ill.