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   HUD Funding Highlights:   
The President  FY 2016 Budget provides $49.3 billion in gross discretionary funding for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to expand the number of rental assistance vouchers; increase homeless assistance for vulnerable families; and make targeted investments in communities to help revitalize high-poverty neighborhoods.  This includes: o Funding rental housing assistance to support 4.7 million low-income families, including the restoration of 67,000 Housing Choice Vouchers lost in 2013 due to sequestration; o Investing $2.5 billion for Homeless Assistance Grants to continue progress toward the Administrations goals of ending chronic homelessness and homelessness among veterans and families; o Providing Public Housing Authorities the support they need to effectively and efficiently deliver Tenant-Based Assistance Programs by funding 90% of administrative fees; o Demonstrating a new model of affordable housing integrated with supportive services for the elderly and assisting 700 new households for persons with disabilities by providing an additional $35 million; o Expanding access to credit with a responsible reduction to FHA mortgage insurance premiums that will enable 250,000 new homebuyers over three years while maintaining the solvency of the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Capital Reserve; o Investing $250 million to transform neighborhoods with distressed HUD-assisted housing and concentrated poverty into opportunity-rich, mixed-income neighborhoods through the Choice Neighborhoods program; o Providing $748 million to address the housing and community development needs of Native American tribes and $332 million for the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS program;  Continuing progress in the Rental Assistance Demonstration by providing $50 million to convert approximately 25,000 public housing units to Section 8 rental assistance contracts that can leverage private funding to make much needed capital improvements; o Increasing job training and financial incentives for public housing and Native American households through Jobs-Plus, an evidence-based program funded at $100 million; o Providing communities with new flexibilities and tools to expand the supply and affordability of housing and promote economic opportunity. 

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Vivian Moon Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187	Post Options Post Reply Quote Vivian Moon Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Dec 05 2015 at 7:28am
	HUD Funding Highlights: The President FY 2016 Budget provides $49.3 billion in gross discretionary funding for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to expand the number of rental assistance vouchers; increase homeless assistance for vulnerable families; and make targeted investments in communities to help revitalize high-poverty neighborhoods. This includes: o Funding rental housing assistance to support 4.7 million low-income families, including the restoration of 67,000 Housing Choice Vouchers lost in 2013 due to sequestration; o Investing $2.5 billion for Homeless Assistance Grants to continue progress toward the Administrations goals of ending chronic homelessness and homelessness among veterans and families; o Providing Public Housing Authorities the support they need to effectively and efficiently deliver Tenant-Based Assistance Programs by funding 90% of administrative fees; o Demonstrating a new model of affordable housing integrated with supportive services for the elderly and assisting 700 new households for persons with disabilities by providing an additional $35 million; o Expanding access to credit with a responsible reduction to FHA mortgage insurance premiums that will enable 250,000 new homebuyers over three years while maintaining the solvency of the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Capital Reserve; o Investing $250 million to transform neighborhoods with distressed HUD-assisted housing and concentrated poverty into opportunity-rich, mixed-income neighborhoods through the Choice Neighborhoods program; o Providing $748 million to address the housing and community development needs of Native American tribes and $332 million for the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS program; Continuing progress in the Rental Assistance Demonstration by providing $50 million to convert approximately 25,000 public housing units to Section 8 rental assistance contracts that can leverage private funding to make much needed capital improvements; o Increasing job training and financial incentives for public housing and Native American households through Jobs-Plus, an evidence-based program funded at $100 million; o Providing communities with new flexibilities and tools to expand the supply and affordability of housing and promote economic opportunity.

Analytical Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List MUSA Citizen Joined: Nov 19 2015 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 562	Post Options Post Reply Quote Analytical Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Dec 07 2015 at 2:34pm
	Our beloved country is $18 Trillion plus in the hole ..... and growing! At some point in time these Federal give-away programs and grants must be cut back or even eliminated. We're facing a huge financial crisis and too many people are fat, dumb and happy as long as they have their credit cards, cell phones, rent-to-own furniture, large car payments, etc. etc. Wake up America! Now is the time to support City Manager Adkins as he proceeds with local financial belt tightening. Stay the course.

VietVet Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008	Post Options Post Reply Quote VietVet Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Dec 07 2015 at 3:33pm
	"Wake up America! Now is the time to support City Manager Adkins as he proceeds with local financial belt tightening. Stay the course" Hey Analytical. You wouldn't be supplementing your income by being the newfound PR spokesperson representing Doug Adkins would you? Or could you be Doug Adkins himself? Your posts of support for this city manager far exceed the limits of embellishment. Rather, it is now in the category of pure comedy and nonsense. You have now spread enough manure. Oh, and the federal government isn't going to do a thing about the deficit. They care only about their own skin and not the future generations and the dilemma they will leave them in. Inept government people got us here and inept government people will keep us here. They are all worthless.
	I'm so proud of my hometown and what it has become. Recall 'em all. Let's start over.