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Housing Aid Abused

Number 13615
Subject Nonprofits
Source Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.)
State None
Year 1996
Publication Date March 31, 1996
Summary This story focused on abuses of a little-known federal program in which nonprofit corporations working with the homeless pay $1 a year to lease government-repossessed houses. The nonprofits can later buy the houses at specially discounted prices and then resell them to low-income people. (March 31, 1996)
Category Contest Entry
Pages 40
Keywords Garland Housing aid abused Contest entry HUD Housing and urban development 40 pgs.
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