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Search results for "Community Development Block Grants" ...
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Nonprofit groups and Legal Action say Fire Department money is up in smoke
The Milwaukee Street Beacon uncovered thathundreds of thousands of Community Development Block Grant dollars went to play Milwaukee Fire Department staffers, instead of to neighborhood organizations.
Tags: HUD; Housing and Urban Development; Community Development Block Grants; Fire Fighters Out Creating Urban Safety; FOCUS; fire detectors; fire prevention; Neighborhood Improvement Development Corporation; NICD; Merrill Park NEighborhood Association; Legal Action; Community Parole Watch
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City spending of federal funds prompts audit
The author investigates a local city-run housing assistance program. Estus found that the program was issuing funds to people who did not meet federal income limits that determine eligibility for the program.
Tags: housing development; Homebuyer Assistance Program; community development block grants; city government; federal government; FOIA; Freedom of Information
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Business Incentives or Corporate Welfare?
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigated Wisconsin's incentives programs in this three-part series. "Wisconsin jumped on the incentives bandwagon in the mid-1980s in a big way, with programs and expenditures proliferating to meet or anticipate almost any demand expanding businesses might make. While state officials offered soothing assurances about accountability for the programs no one... had attempted to analyze the effectiveness of the programs..." The newspaper found: spending reached $1 billion during the past 12 years, "many of the state's largest... firms were the biggest recipients of state largess" and "job creation promises were overblown and poorly monitored."
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Opportunity denied
St. Louis Post-Dispatch uncovers the misuse of federal Community Development Block Grant funds by the city of St. Louis and the administration of Mayor Vince Schoemehl, using the funds in medium-income neighborhoods, and further neglecting the poorer neighborhoods, the areas that the funds were meant to assist.
Tags: St. Louis; local government; federal funds; community development block grant; urban renewal; Getter
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Dallas Morning News finds community development block grant funds have landed in the pockets of bureaucrats and developers and have done little to help the poor; includes graphics of how funds were disbursed, March - May 1990.
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Atlanta Journal/Constitution examines city spending of federal Community Development Block Grant funds to provide jobs for residents of low-income neighborhoods; finds that few new jobs ever materialized, March 2, 1986.
Tags: GA
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Columbia Missourian shows house renovations funded under Community Development Block Grant program are often not completed or are done with inferior materials; finds problem lies in part with inadequate city inspections, Aug. 21, 1988.
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