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HUD No. 98-97
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Or contact your local HUD officeFebruary 26, 1998

CUOMO ANNOUNCES $20 MILLION IN HUD SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD GRANTS FOR 73 COMMUNITIES AROUND NATION

WASHINGTON - Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo today announced $20 million in Safe Neighborhood Grants to 73 communities across the nation to fight illegal drug activity and other crime in HUD-assisted low-income housing and in surrounding neighborhoods.

The grants will be used to:

  • Enable housing developments to hire off-duty police officers to patrol neighborhoods around the developments to deter and investigate drug-related criminal activity.

  • Pay for security-related capital improvements around low-income housing developments, such as fences and lighting.

  • Fund community-based crime-prevention programs, including: neighborhood watch patrols by security guards and residents, drug abuse education programs, self-defense training and home security training.

  • Fund education, employment and training programs designed to deter people from crime, as one part of wide-ranging anti-crime programs.

"These grants will save lives by preventing crime," Cuomo said. "They will offer new protection to some of the most vulnerable Americans living in neighborhoods with some of the highest crime rates."

"All Americans - no matter how poor, no matter where they live - want to live in safe neighborhoods," Cuomo said. "We will not allow drug dealers and other criminals to terrorize innocent residents of public and assisted housing."

Safe Neighborhood Grants are limited to $250,000 each. Several housing developments in the same city can each receive grants.

The grants are designed to reduce crime in whole neighborhoods where there is low-income housing - not just on the grounds of public and assisted housing. Owners and operators of properties receiving grants must work in partnership with local government agencies, police departments, prosecutor's offices, and other local groups interested in creating safe communities.

The Safe Neighborhood grants can be combined with grants from other HUD anti-crime programs - along with Justice Department and Health and Human Services Department grants --as part of a coordinated attack on gangs, drugs and other crime. Other HUD crime-fighting initiatives include:

  • Drug Elimination Grants. HUD has awarded more than $1.3 billion in these grants since 1989 - including $217.3 million in November - to fight drug dealers and other criminals in public and assisted housing.

  • Operation Safe Home. Since this initiative was created in 1994 to attack crime in public and assisted housing, it has been responsible for executing more than 1,600 search warrants and making more than 13,400 arrests. Operation Safe Home has seized $25.5 million worth of illegal drugs, 1,860 weapons including 200 assault weapons, and $3.6 million in drug money. Operation Safe Home task forces have been set up around the country, made up of state and local law enforcement officers and the following federal agencies: HUD's Inspector General's Office; the FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; the Secret Service; the U.S. Marshal's Service; and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Local district attorneys and U.S. attorneys prosecute cases for the task forces.

  • "One Strike and You're Out." President Clinton announced One Strike guidelines in March, 1996. One Strike adds provisions to public housing leases that make involvement in drugs or serious criminal activity a basis for barring people from moving into public housing and for eviction. Housing authorities across the nation have used One Strike to keep tens of thousands of lawbreakers out. The initiative is popular among the vast majority of law-abiding public housing residents, who have pleaded for years for help in reducing crime in their neighborhoods.

The nation's crime rate has dropped by 10.3 percent since 1992 -- including a 16.3 percent drop in violent crime. No separate statistics exist for crime in public and assisted housing, which have historically suffered some of the highest crime rates. However, law enforcement officials in the nation's largest cities say rates for violent crime and drug-related crime in public housing have come down even more sharply in the past five years than in communities at large.

HUD SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD GRANTS

LEAD APPLICANT

CITY

STATE

GRANT AMOUNT

 

 

 

 

Hsng Auth. of the Birmingham District

Birmingham

AL

$250,000.00

Housing Auth, City of Prichard

Prichard, AL

AL

$250,000.00

 

 

 

 

Grant Park Apartments

Phoenix

AZ

$250,000.00

Paradise Shadows LP

Phoenix

AZ

$250,000.00

 

 

 

 

City of Wasco Housing Authority

Wasco

CA

$250,000.00

Casa Community Assoc.

Los Angeles

CA

$250,000.00

Los Angeles Gardens Community Assoc.

Los Angeles

CA

$250,000.00

Hsng Auth. of the City of LA

Los Angeles

CA

$250,000.00

New Wilmington Affordable Hsng, Inc

Compton

CA

$250,000.00

Imperial Valley Housing Authority

Brawley

CA

$250,000.00

Vacaville Community Hsg.

Vacaville

CA

$193,813.00

Northridge Cooperative Homes

San Francisco

CA

$250,000.00

Lincoln Dakota Woods Assoc.

Fresno

CA

$250,000.00

 

 

 

 

East Village Company

Denver

CO

$250,000.00

City of Greeley

Greeley

CO

$250,000.00

San Juan del Centro Ltd Ptnr.

Boulder

CO

$92,300.00

 

 

 

 

Engewood Terrace Preservation

Washington

DC

$250,000.00

 

 

 

 

Hsng Auth. of the City of Lakeland

Lakeland

FL

$250,000.00

Housing Authority of Sarasota

Sarasota

FL

$250,000.00

Housing Authority of Avon Park

Avon Park

FL

$155,600.00

Community Service Foundation

Clearwater

FL

$224,527.00

Pinella County Housing Auth - Lealman

Clearwater

FL

$111,048.00

Pinella County Housing Authority - GRC

Clearwater

FL

$111,048.00

Demco Management, Inc.

Jacksonville

FL

$250,000.00

Ft. Walton Beach Housing Auth

Ft. Walton Beach

FL

$250,000.00

Holly Brook Homes, Inc.

Jacksonville

FL

$249,659.00

 

 

 

 

Martin Luther King, Jr., Village

Atlanta

GA

$250,000.00

Gartrell Court Apts

Atlanta

GA

$250,000.00

 

 

 

 

Homes of Oakridge

Des Moines

IA

$125,000.00

 

 

 

 

Housing Authority City of Alton

Alton

IL

$250,000.00

Granite City Housing Authority

Chicago

IL

$184,806.00

 

 

 

 

Quinn I Limited Partership

Indianapolis

IN

$249,605.00

 

 

 

 

Housing Authority of Louisville

Louisville

KY

$249,890.00

 

 

 

 

Hollywood Assoc.

Springfield

MA

$250,000.00

Market Mill Assoc

Lowell

MA

$249,635.00

Mishawum Park Assoc.

Charlestown

MA

$234,635.00

Marken Properties, Inc.

Holyoke

MA

$119,600.00

 

 

 

 

MLK Limited Divident Hsng Assoc

Detroit

MI

$250,000.00

Interfaith Homes of Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo

MI

$250,000.00

Sault Ste. Marie, Tribe of Chippewa Indian Hsng Auth

Sault Saint Marie

MI

$250,000.00

 

 

 

 

Valleyview Apts

Kansas City

MO

$249,861.00

Englewood Assoc/Englewood Apts

Kansas City

MO

$250,000.00

Housing Authority of St. Joseph

St. Joseph

MO

$250,000.00

 

 

 

 

City of Topeka H.A.

Topeka

KS

$250,000.00

 

 

 

 

Thetford Property Management

Burlington

NC

$246,654.00

 

 

 

 

Wade East Apts

Millville

NJ

$218,378.00

Hsng Auth. of the Township of Neptune

Neptune

NJ

$250,000.00

Housing Auth., City of Union

Union City

NJ

$250,000.00

Asbury Park Hsng Auth (Northeast)

Asbury

NJ

$250,000.00

High Park Gardens Coop Corp

Newark

NJ

$250,000.00

Delsea Village Apts

Millville

NJ

$218,378.00

Asbury Park Hsng Auth (Southwest)

Asbury

NJ

$250,000.00

 

 

 

 

Hsng Auth. of the City of Los Cruces

Los Cruces

NM

$133,639.00

 

 

 

 

Baisley Park Gardens

Jamaica

NY

$250,000.00

Harlem Congregation for Community Improv, Inc.

Upper Manhattan

NY

$217,500.00

Jackson Terrace Assoc.

Hempstead

NY

$250,000.00

The Municipal Hsng Auth. of Yonkers

Yonkers

NY

$250,000.00

Mount Vernon Housing Authority

Mt. Vernon

NY

$250,000.00

Northshore Plaza Assoc.

New York

NY

$250,000.00

 

 

 

 

Utica Community Action, Inc.

Utica

NY

$250,000.00

Lark Livingston Housing

Albany

NY

$195,901.00

 

 

 

 

Coshocton Metropolitan Housing

Coshocton

OH

$250,000.00

Tuskegee Alumni Hsng Foundation

Columbus

OH

$250,000.00

 

 

 

 

Tulsa Housing Authority

Tulsa

OK

$250,000.00

Chaparral Townhouses Ltd

Oklahoma City

OK

$250,000.00

Normandy Apartments, Ltd

Tulsa

OK

$249,983.00

 

 

 

 

Franciscan Enterprise of Oregon

Portland

OR

$250,000.00

Housing Authority of Salem

Salem

OR

$250,000.00

 

 

 

 

Hillrise Mutual Housing Assoc.

Lancaster

PA

$250,000.00

 

 

 

 

South Carolina Regional HA #3

Barnwell

SC

$250,000.00

Swift Creek Apts

Hartsville

SC

$81,820.00

Volunteers of Amer

Columbia

SC

$250,000.00

 

 

 

 

Knoxville Community Dev. Corp

Knoxville

TN

$250,000.00

Townview Terrace I & II, Ltd & Townview

Knoxville

TN

$249,600.00

 

 

 

 

Lulac Village Park Apts

Corpus Christi

TX

$250,000.00

Hsng Auth. of the City of Seguin

Seguin

TX

$250,000.00

Bonilla & Smith Ltd (Northside Apts)

Corpus Christi

TX

$250,000.00

Hsng Auth of the City of Dallas (Roseland)

Dallas

TX

$250,000.00

Diocesan Charitable Trust - Colonia Tepeyac Apts

Dallas

TX

$250,000.00

Hsng Auth of the City of Dallas (Park Manor)

Dallas

TX

$250,000.00

Hsng Auth of the City of Dallas(Frazier)

Dallas

TX

$250,000.00

Beaumont Housing Authority

Beaumont

TX

$250,000.00

 

 

 

 

Alexandria Redevelopment H.A.

Alexandria

VA

$229,440.00

 

 

 

 

Armory Square Limited Partnership

Windsor

VT

$157,680.00

 

 

 

 

Seattle Housing Auth

Seattle

WA

$250,000.00

Hsng Auth of the City of Tacoma

Tacoma

WA

$250,000.00

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

 

 

$20,000,000.00

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