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HUD Archives: News Releases
| HUD No. 99-209 |
| Further Information: | For Release |
| In the Washington, DC area: 202/708-0685 | Thursday |
| Or contact your local HUD office | October 7, 1999 |
CUOMO AWARDS $39.1 MILLION TO TRAIN YOUNG PEOPLE IN 35 STATES AND DC TO BUILD NEW HOUSING AND NEW LIVES
WASHINGTON - Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo today awarded $39.1 million in grants to train about 2,000 young high school drop-outs to build and renovate low-income housing so they can begin new careers as construction workers.
The 87 local governments, housing authorities and non-profit groups receiving grants under the Youthbuild Program are located in 35 states and the District of Columbia. They will give young people ages 16 to 24 on-the-job training through building and renovating more than 900 units of affordable housing for homeless people and other low-income families. A total of 234 applicants around the country competed for the grants.
Youthbuild also provides academic training that helps young people get general equivalency high school diplomas, and provides social services and training in leadership skills.
"Youthbuild shows young people how to build new homes for people in need, and new lives for themselves," Cuomo said. "This program unlocks the door to success and a good job for young people left behind."
Youthbuild participants would have a hard time finding good jobs without the program, because they would lack high school diplomas and job skills.
HUD's investment in the program nationwide this year will attract other investment from outside the Department of $32.5 million in cash and in-kind resources.
Because Youthbuild has been so successful, President Clinton requested $75 million for the program for Fiscal Year 2000. Both the House and Senate cut this to $42.5 million in the budgets each approved. The HUD budget bill is now before a conference committee.
More than $200 million in grants have been made under Youthbuild since it began in 1993, enabling more than 11,000 young people to take part in building or rehabilitating more than 7,000 affordable housing units in their communities.
1999 Youthbuild Grants
| State |
City |
Grant |
Applicant |
| AL |
Birmingham |
$300,000 |
Birmingham Health Care for the Homeless |
| AL |
Mobile |
$300,000 |
Mobile Housing Board |
| AR |
West Memphis |
$350,000 |
Mid-South Community College |
| AZ |
Guadalupe |
$399,950 |
Town of Gudalupe |
| AZ |
Phoenix |
$650,000 |
City of Phoenix |
| CA |
Fresno |
$400,000 |
Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission |
| CA |
Gardena |
$650,000 |
Century Center for Economic Opportunity (CCEO) |
| CA |
Los Angeles |
$650,000 |
Youth Employment Systems, Inc. |
| CA |
Los Angeles |
$650,000 |
Pacific Asian Consortium In Employment |
| CA |
Menlo Park |
$299,990 |
Opportunities Industrialization Center West, Inc. |
| CA |
Richmond |
$400,000 |
City of Richmond |
| CA |
Riverside |
$300,000 |
Ujima (People Helping People) Inc. |
| CA |
Sacramento |
$650,000 |
Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency |
| CA |
San Francisco |
$300,000 |
Asian Neighborhood Design, Inc. |
| CA |
San Francisco |
$400,000 |
San Francisco Conservation Corps |
| CA |
Santa Rosa |
$400,000 |
Sonoma County People for Economic Opportunity |
| CA |
Sun Valley |
$650,000 |
Community Partnership Development Corporation |
| CA |
Venice |
$400,000 |
Venice Community Housing Corporation |
| CO |
Ignacio |
$336,285 |
Southern Ute Community Action Programs, Inc. |
| CT |
Hartford |
$650,000 |
Co-Opportunity, Inc. |
| CT |
New Britain |
$400,000 |
New Bitain |
| DC |
Washington |
$399,890 |
Latin American Youth Center |
| DC |
Washington |
$400,000 |
Sasha Bruce Youthwork, Inc. |
| DC |
Washington |
$650,000 |
ARCH Training Center, Inc. |
| FL |
Clearwater |
$400,000 |
Career Options of Pinellas, Inc. |
| FL |
Gainesville |
$400,000 |
Gainesville Housing Authorit'y |
| FL |
Miami |
$300,000 |
YWCA of Greater Miami & Dade Co. |
| GA |
Marietta |
$299,985 |
Cobb Housing, Inc. |
| HI |
Honolulu |
$350,000 |
City & County of Honolulu |
| ID |
Nampa |
$193,756 |
Nampa Community Based Development Organization |
| IL |
Bloomington |
$400,000 |
YouthBuild McLean County |
| IL |
East Saint Louis |
$300,000 |
Emerson Park Development Corporation |
| IL |
Rockford |
$650,000 |
Comprehensive Community Solutions, Inc. |
| IN |
Gary |
$400,000 |
Tree of Life Community Development Corp. & Care Cent |
| KY |
Lexington |
$300,000 |
Comm. Action Council for Lexington-Fayette, Bourbon |
| LA |
Houma |
$650,000 |
Terrebonne Parish Consolidate Government |
| MA |
Brockton |
$400,000 |
Old Colony Y Services Corporation |
| MA |
Cambridge |
$395,485 |
Just A Start Corporation |
| MA |
New Bedford |
$400,000 |
People Acting in Community Endeavors, Inc. |
| MA |
Roxbury |
$650,000 |
Youthbuild Boston, Inc. |
| MA |
Worcester |
$399,794 |
Mass. Job Training, Inc. |
| MD |
Baltimore |
$400,000 |
The Housing Authority of Baltimore City |
| MD |
Baltimore |
$650,000 |
Community Building In Partnership, Inc. |
| ME |
Portland |
$400,000 |
Portland West Neighborhood Planning Council |
| MI |
Ann Arbor |
$400,000 |
Wastenaw County, Michigan |
| MI |
Detroit |
$646,083 |
Young Detroit Builders |
| MN |
Chaska |
$300,000 |
Carver-Scott Educational Cooperative |
| MO |
Saint Louis |
$400,000 |
Housing Authority of St. Louis County |
| MS |
Moorhead |
$650,000 |
Mississippi Delta Community College |
| NC |
Greensboro |
$300,000 |
University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| NM |
Albuquerque |
$400,000 |
Youthbuild New Mexico Coalition, Inc. |
| NM |
Taos |
$400,000 |
Taos County |
| NY |
Albany |
$650,000 |
City of Albany |
| NY |
Bronx |
$399,964 |
South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corp, (SOB 37 |
| NY |
Bronx |
$400,000 |
Corporation for Youth Energy Corps. Inc. |
| NY |
Bronx |
$360,000 |
Banana Kelly Community Improvement Assoc. |
| NY |
Brooklyn |
$299,851 |
Urban Strategies, Inc. |
| NY |
New York |
$400,000 |
YMCA of Greater New York |
| NY |
New York |
$400,000 |
Episcopal Social Services, Inc. |
| NY |
New York |
$650,000 |
Youth Action Programs & Homes, Inc. |
| NY |
Rochester |
$350,000 |
The Urban League of Rochester, N.Y. Inc. |
| NY |
Troy |
$650,000 |
Commission on Economic Opportunity for the Renss. Co |
| NY |
Utica |
$400,000 |
Utica Community Action, Inc. |
| OH |
Dayton |
$400,000 |
Improved Solutions for Urban Systems |
| OH |
McArthur |
$300,000 |
Vinton Community Commissioners |
| OK |
Oklahoma City |
$400,000 |
City of Oklahoma City |
| OK |
Tulsa |
$650,000 |
Housing Authority of the City of Tulsa |
| OR |
Corvallis |
$395,724 |
Community Services Consortium |
| OR |
Portland |
$650,000 |
City of Portland, Oregon |
| PA |
Greensburg |
$650,000 |
Private Industry Council of Westmoreland/Fayette, Inc |
| PA |
Philadelphia |
$399,085 |
Impact Services Corporation |
| PA |
Philadelphia |
$650,000 |
Phila. Youth for Change Charter School |
| PA |
York |
$650,000 |
Crispus Attucks Community Development Corp. |
| RI |
Providence |
$400,000 |
Providence Plan |
| TN |
Memphis |
$399,945 |
Tennessee Technology Center at Memphis |
| TX |
Brownsville |
$400,000 |
Community Development Corp. of Brownsville |
| TX |
Crosbyton |
$300,000 |
Caprock Community Action Association, Inc. |
| TX |
Harlingen |
$400,000 |
Harlingen Community Development Corporation |
| TX |
Houston |
$650,000 |
Houston Community College System |
| TX |
New Waverly |
$398,522 |
Gulf Coast Trades Center |
| TX |
San Antonio |
$400,000 |
Geroge Gervin Youth Center, Inc. |
| VA |
Waynesboro |
$525,417 |
Waynesboro Redevelopment and Housing Authority |
| VT |
Burlington |
$400,000 |
King Street Youth Center |
| WA |
Tacoma |
$300,000 |
Tacoma-Pierce County Employment & Training Consorti |
| WV |
Charleston |
$590,000 |
Multi-County Community Action Against Poverty, Inc. |
| WV |
Kincaid |
$650,000 |
Southern Appalachian Labor School |
| WV |
Morgantown |
$400,000 |
Human Resource Development & Employment, Inc. |
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