HUD Archives: News Releases

HUD No. 04-148
Brian Sullivan
(202) 708-0685 x 7527

 For Release
Monday
December 13, 2004

HUD'S YOUTHBUILD PROGRAM DELIVERS $54 MILLION FOR SKILLS AND LEADERSHIP TRAINING
Program participants will produce more than 1,000 affordable homes

WASHINGTON - Nearly four thousand young people who never finished high school will get a second chance to receive their diplomas because of $54 million in grants announced today by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson. The grants are part of HUD's Youthbuild Program to offer job training and leadership skills to young people while putting them back on a path toward graduation. These grants will help train them for a future in the construction trades while producing more than 1,000 homes for lower income families, many facing homelessness.

"This funding will offer hope and opportunity to young men and women across the country," said Jackson. "Youthbuild enables them to return to the classroom, acquire construction skills and put their minds and hands to work producing more affordable housing in their own communities."

Young people who enroll in local Youthbuild programs (see attached list) lack high school diplomas and the job skills necessary to find meaningful employment. The funding announced today will help young men and women, ages 16-to-24, to receive their high school equivalency diplomas and provide them training in homebuilding skills that will qualify them for careers in the building industry.

Program participants will receive on-the-job training in the building trades and help build and renovate homes that are then sold at affordable prices to low- and very low-income persons as well as to homeless individuals and families. In addition, these grants are anticipated to generate millions of additional dollars from other public and private sources.

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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Fiscal Year 2004 Youthbuild Awards
State Recipient City
Amount
Alaska Southeast Alaska Guidance Association (SAGA) Juneau
$677,200
   Total
$677,200
Arkansas Pulaski Technical College North Little Rock
$397,832
   Total
$397,832
Arizona Phoenix, City of Phoenix
$700,000
     Total
$700,000
California Mojave Basin Youth Corps, Inc. Adelanto
$699,980
  Valley Inc. - LA CAUSA Los Angeles
$400,000
San Jose Conservation Corps San Jose
$700,000
Greenfield, City of Greenfield
$400,000
Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission Fresno
$700,000
Watsonville, City of Watsonville
$686,000
Venice Community Housing Corporation Venice
$480,000
Community Action Partnership of Sonoma Co. Santa Rosa
$400,000
Youth Employment Partnership, Inc. Oakland
$700,000
Board of Trustees of the Glide Foundation San Francisco
$400,000
Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency Martinez
$700,000
Black Contractors Association of San Diego San Diego
$700,000
Yuba County Office of Education Marysville
$400,000
   Total
$7,365,980
Connecticut Co-Opportunity, Inc. Hartford
$700,000
   Total
$700,000
District of Columbia National Association of Foster Care Children of America, Inc. Washington
$400,000
  Latin American Youth Center Washington
$473,685
Sasha Bruce Youthwork, Inc. Washington
$700,000
ARCH Training Center, Inc. Washington
$700,000
   Total
$2,273,685
Florida Daniel Memorial JaxBuild, Inc. Jacksonville
$700,000
  Boley Centers for Behavioral Health Care, Inc. Saint Petersburg
$700,000
   Total
$1,400,000
Georgia Cobb Housing, Inc. Marietta
$700,000
  Fulton Atlanta Community Action Authority, Inc. Atlanta
$700,000
SW Georgia United Empowerment Zone, Inc. Vienna
$400,000
Savannah, City of Savannah
$398,385
    Total
$2,198,385
Illinois YouthBuild McLean County Bloomington
$700,000
   Total
$700,000
Kansas United Way of Wyandotte County, Inc. Kansas City
$700,000
   Total
$700,000
Kentucky Morehead State University Morehead
$400,000
  Young Adult Development in Action, Inc. Louisville
$700,000
Hazard Community and Technical College Hazard
$398,894
   Total
$1,498,894
Louisiana Louisiana Technical College - Sullivan Campus Bogalusa
$400,000
  Louisiana Technical College - Tallulah Tallulah
$400,000
Housing Authority of East Baton Rouge Baton Rouge
$400,000
   Total
$1,200,000
Massachusetts Nueva Esperanza, Inc. Holyoke
$695,000
  YWCA of Western Massachusetts Springfield
$700,000
People Acting in Community Endeavors New Bedford
$700,000
Old Colony YMCA Brockton
$700,000
Lawrence Family Development & Education Fund, Inc. Lawrence
$700,000
Youthbuild Boston, Inc. Roxbury
$700,000
   Total
$4,195,000
Maryland Suitland Family and Life Development Corp. Glenarden
$400,000
   Total
$400,000
Maine Coastal Enterprises, Inc. (CEI) Wiscasset
$400,000
   Total
$400,000
Michigan Ozone House, Inc. Ann Arbor
$400,000
   Total
$400,000
Minnesota Minnesota Dept. of Employment and Economic Development Saint Paul
$400,000
   Total
$400,000
Missouri Columbia Builds Youth (CBY) Columbia
$699,999
  Youth Education and Health in Soulard Saint Louis
$700,000
Swope Community Builders Kansas City
$700,000
Housing Authority of St. Louis County Saint Louis
$700,000
HI-Tech Charities (HTC) Saint Louis
$700,000
   Total
$3,499,999
North Carolina Serve Management Group, Inc. Marble
$400,000
  Housing Authority of the City of Wilmington Wilmington
$700,000
   Total
$1,100,000
Nebraska Goodwill Industries, Inc. Omaha
$400,000
   Total
$400,000
New Jersey Essex County College Newark
$697,735
  Housing Authority of the City of Camden Camden
$700,000
Episcopal Community Development Newark
$699,996
   Total
$2,097,731
New Mexico Youth Building Better Lives, Inc. Albuquerque
$500,000
   Total
$500,000
New York South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corp. New York
$695,916
  Buffalo & Erie Co. Workforce Dev. Cons., Inc. Buffalo
$400,000
St. John's Place Family Center, HDFC Brooklyn
$400,000
Jubilee Homes of Syracuse Syracuse
$400,000
Youth Action Programs and Homes, Inc. New York
$700,000
Town of West Seneca West Seneca
$696,761
YMCA of Greater New York New York
$700,000
   Total
$3,992,677
Ohio Project Rebuild, Inc. Canton
$700,000
  Youth Over Us Columbus
$400,000
Buckeye Community Hope Foundation Columbus
$700,000
ISUS, Inc. Dayton
$700,000
   Total
$2,500,000
Oregon The Job Council Medford
$400,000
Portland, City of Portland
$685,000
   Total
$1,085,000
Pennsylvania Crispus Attucks Association, Inc. York
$700,000
  Concerned Citizens' Community Creation Center (dba 5Cs Corp.) Pittsburgh
$400,000
Philadelphia Youth for Change Charter School Philadelphia
$700,000
Action-Housing, Inc. Pittsburgh
$700,000
   Total
$2,500,000
Rhode Island Providence Plan Providence
$700,000
Total
$700,000
South Carolina Lancaster County School District Lancaster
$396,399
  Allendale County ALIVE, Inc. Allendale
$400,000
Gate (Garrett Apprenticeship, Training and Education) North Charleston
$400,000
   Total
$1,196,399
Tennessee Chattanooga Housing Authority Chattanooga
$700,000
   Total
$700,000
Texas San Antonio Youth Centers, Inc. San Antonio
$700,000
  George Gervin Youth Center, Inc. San Antonio
$700,000
Community Development Corp. of Brownsville Brownsville
$400,000
   Total
$1,800,000
Virginia Bristol Redevelopment & Housing Authority Bristol
$400,000
  Employment Resources Incorporated (ERI) Fredericksburg
$400,000
Tidewater Builders Association Chesapeake
$700,000
Petersburg Urban Ministries Petersburg
$700,000
Danville Redevelopment and Housing Authority Danville
$700,000
   Total
$2,900,000
Vermont ReCycle North Burlington
$400,000
   Total
$400,000
Washington King County Seattle
$700,000
   Total
$700,000
West Virginia Human Resource Development and Employment, INC. Morgantown
$400,000
  Huntington Housing Authority Huntington
$400,000
Randolph County Housing Authority Elkins
$400,000
   Total
$1,200,000
Wisconsin Operation Fresh Start, Inc. Madison
$269,794
OIC of Racine County, Inc. Racine
$697,637
   Total
$967,431
   GRAND TOTAL
$53,846,213
 

NOTE: For a more detailed summary of the projects listed above, visit HUD's website.
 
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