HUD Archives: News Releases


HUD No. 04-065
Brian Sullivan
(202) 708-0685 x 7527

For Release
Thursday
July 8, 2004

BUSH ADMINISTRATION AWARDS $24.5 MILLION TO BOOST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND JOB GROWTH IN RURAL AMERICA
Funds will help produce affordable housing in 36 states

WASHINGTON - Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson today announced $24.5 million in grants to help more than one hundred rural communities in 36 states stimulate local economies, produce more affordable housing and boost job growth. The funding is provided through HUD's Rural Housing and Economic Development Program (see attached list).

In addition, these grants are expected to generate nearly $48 million from other public and private sources to further promote economic development and employment.

"This investment in rural America demonstrates that this Administration's commitment to our nation's heartland is strong," said Jackson. "These grants will help rural communities across the country produce affordable housing and jobs where they're needed most."

Rural Housing and Economic Development grants help pay for land acquisition, new home construction, housing demolition, infrastructure improvements and construction training. Other possible uses include homeownership and financial counseling; financial assistance to homeowners, businesses and developers; creating microenterprises and small business incubators; and, establishing lines of credit or revolving loan pools to benefit the local business community.

Rural non-profit organizations, federally recognized Native American tribes, community development corporations and state agencies will administer these grants. The funding will help 105 rural communities to build and improve affordable housing, create jobs and generate community and economic development (see attached list).

Rural communities will use this funding as seed money to pay the start-up costs for housing or economic development projects. These grants will also help organizations to hire and train their staffs, develop strategic plans and acquire office space and other needed facilities.

HUD is the nation's housing agency committed to increasing homeownership, particularly among minorities; creating affordable housing opportunities for low-income Americans; and supporting the homeless, elderly, people with disabilities and people living with AIDS. The Department also promotes economic and community development as well as enforces the nation's fair housing laws. More information about HUD and its programs is available on the Internet and espanol.hud.gov.

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Rural Housing and Economic Development Awards
State Recipient
Amount
Alaska Rural Alaska Community Program, Inc.
$150,000
Alabama Collaborative Solutions, Inc.
$400,000
The Hale Empowerment and Revitalization Organization (HERO)
$138,168
ARK of Love Ministries, Inc.
$146,150
Health Services Center, Inc.
$50,000
Alabama Rural Heritage Foundation, Inc.
$150,000
Arkansas Mississippi County Arkansas E.O.C
$101,087
Chicot Housing Assistance Corp.
$125,000
Crawford-Sebastian Community Development Council, Inc.
$150,000
South Arkansas Community Development
$150,000
Arizona Navajo Partnership for Housing, Inc.
$400,000
Arizona Department of Housing
$400,000
Moenkopi Developers Corp.
$121,900
Hualapal Indian Tribe
$150,000
White Mountain Apache Tribe
$150,000
California Housing Assistance Corporation
$400,000
Self-Help Enterprises
$400,000
Imperial Valley Habitat For Humanity
$400,000
Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno Indians
$400,000
Cultural Marketing Center
$150,000
Relational Culture Institute
$150,000
Bishop Paiute Tribe
$142,212
Yolo Housing Foundation
$69,872
Colorado Intertribal Economic Alliance
$400,000
Florida Everglades Community Association, Inc.
$400,000
Clay County Habitat for Humanity/Middleburg
$73,186
Florence Villa Community Development Corporation
$150,000
Seminole Tribe of Florida
$150,000
Georgia Southwest United Empowerment Zone, Inc.
$400,000
JCVISION and Associates, Inc.
$398,028
Crisp Area Habitat for Humanity, Inc.
$21,826
Hawaii Maui Economic Opportunity, Inc.
$50,000
Idaho Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
$380,310
Coeru d'Alene Tribe
$150,000
Kansas Original Town of Liberal Revitalization, Incorporated (OTLR), Inc.
$150,000
Kentucky Frontier Housing, Inc.
$400,000
Southern Kentucky Economic Development Corporation (SKED)
$400,000
Kentucky Housing Corporation
$400,000
Hazard Perry County Housing Development Alliance, Inc.
$150,000
Purchase Area Housing Corp.
$150,000
Owsley County Action Team
$150,000
Low Income Housing Coalition East Kentucky, Inc.
$84,000
Lousiana Louisiana Technical College Tallulah Foundation
$150,000
Seventh District Pavilion, Inc.
$150,000
Maine Growth Council of Oxford Hills
$150,000
Penobscot Indian Nation
$87,350
Michigan Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
$150,000
Mississippi Choctaw Housing Authority
$400,000
Life Renewal Ministries, Inc.
$400,000
Mississippi Homebuyer Education Center - Mississippi Housing Initiative
$150,000
Montana Action for Eastern Montana, Inc.
$393,033
Kootenai River Development Council, Inc.
$150,000
Native American Development Corporation
$150,000
Anaconda Local Development Corporation
$145,418
North Carolina Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
$400,000
Hallwa-Saponi Indian Tribe, Inc.
$399,580
North Dakota Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
$150,000
Nebraska Ho-Chuck Community Development Corporation
$350,000
West Central Nebraska Development District, Inc.
$150,000
New Hampshire Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network-WREN
$400,000
New Mexico Eastern Plains Housing Development Corporation
$400,000
Dona Ana County Colonias Development Council
$400,000
Pueblo of San Juan
$400,000
Las Cruces Affordable Housing, Inc.
$150,000
Centro Fuerza y Unidad, Dona Ana County, NM (CFU)
$139,920
Pueblo de Cochiti
$150,000
Sandoval County Economic Development Corporation
$150,000
Housing & Economic Rural Opportunity, Inc.
$150,000
New York Akwesasne Indian Housing Authority
$395,034
Albany County Rural Housing Alliance, Inc.
$150,000
Bishop Sheen Ecumenical Housing Foundation, Inc.
$100,000
Ohio WSOS Community Action Commission, INC.
$150,000
Jackson-Vinton Community Action, Inc.
$150,000
Oklahoma Citizen Potawatomi Nation
$400,000
Rural Enterprise of Oklahoma, INC.
$400,000
Oregon Umpqua Community Development Corporation
$65,000
Pennsylvania Mennonite Economic Development Associates
$150,000
South Carolina Waccamaw Regional Council of Governments
$150,000
South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families
$150,000
South Dakota Central South Dakota Enhancement District
$146,423
Miner County Community Revitalization
$150,000
Tennessee West Tennessee Legal Services, Inc.
$400,000
LeMoyne-Owen College Community Dev. Corp.
$149,955
Douglass-Cherokee Economic Authority, INC.
$149,237
Aid to Distressed Families of Appalachian Counties (ADFAC, Inc,)
$65,665
Texas Proyecto Azteca
$400,000
Azteca Community Loan Fund
$400,000
Neighborhood Housing Services of Dimmit County, Inc.
$400,000
Community Development Corporation of South Texas, Inc. (CDCST)
$400,000
El Paso Empowerment Zone Corporation
$400,000
ACCION Texas, Inc.
$150,000
Statewide Consolidated CDC
$149,717
Utah Community Development Corporation of Utah
$400,000
Northwestern Band of Shoshone
$150,000
Neighborhood Nonprofit Housing Corporation
$150,000
Virginia Southeast Rural Community Assistance Project, INC.
$150,000
Washington Southern Puget Sound Inter-Tribal Housing Authority
$395,012
World Vision, Inc.
$400,000
The Alesek Institute
$136,070
Spokane Tribe of Indians
$150,000
Wisconsin Red Cliff ABND of Lake Superior Chippewas
$400,000
West Central Wisconsin Community Action Agency, Inc. (West CAP)
$250,000
Northwoods Niijii Enterprise Community, Inc.
$150,000
West Virginia Southern Appalachian Labor School
$400,000
Kanawha Institute for Social Research & Action, Inc. (KISRA)
$150,000
Total Funding
$24,519,153
  

EDITORS NOTE: For a more complete summary of the local projects, visit /news/2004/rural.pdf

 
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