Posted on 06/22/2006 8:28:12 PM PDT by jrushing
NEW ORLEANS - Louisiana's plan to dole out billions in community development block grants may violate federal law requiring at least 50 percent of the money to be spent on low- and moderate-income people, according to a complaint sent today to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The complaint was submitted by Loyola University New Orleans on behalf of 13 people and organizations, including the Louisiana chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Low Income Housing Coalition, Partnership for Working Families and Advancement Project.
"Louisiana is planning to spend more than $10 billion for hurricane relief housing efforts in a way that violates federal law, specifically the requirement that at least 50 percent of these funds be spent for 'persons of low and moderate income,'" reads the letter sent to HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson and U.S. Inspector General Kenneth Donohue.
"The state has misleadingly named its programs as 'The Road Home Housing Programs' despite the fact that the planned expenditures will not provide a realistic road home for most of the people with low and moderate incomes - renters … and low and moderate income homeowners," the letter says.
But page 5 of The Road Home plan challenges the critics’ claims.
"The damage from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita disproportionately impacted families with low to moderate incomes. HUD therefore requires that at least 50 percent of the supplemental (CDBG) dollars allocated to Louisiana for recovery be invested in programs that directly support these families. Accordingly, in both the partially and fully funded housing programs described herein, the great majority of funds will go to low- and moderate-income families," The Road Home plan says.•
The other $5 billion may be spent on those most of the people with low and moderate incomes - renters who did not own homes or who were renters.
Demoncrats are ABOVE the law.
They make up the NEW rules as they go along.
Heck, just build them mansions and give them maids and they'll all be happy.
Remember the cruise ship that provided maid service to "homeless" so they'd have less stress in their life? Heck do the same for them on land.
The greed of those riding in the wagon never ceases to amaze me.
My Mother Goose always taught me, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride'.
How do they define "moderate incomes"?
Oh & Mamma told me,
"If frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their butt."
Also,
"People in hell want Ice water."
bump!
No sweat!
I'll run out to the yard tonight and grab some money off out tree!
Down in southern LA, we use to say that if "If" was a skiff, we wouldn't have to pole down the bayou.
"Heck, just build them mansions and give them maids and they'll all be happy."
Now what? Why did you have to bring up yhat whole illegal immigration issue?
(Just kiddin')
OKay, I don't want to discriminate.
Give em citizenship, IMMEDIATELY!
Also build them mansions too and have American citizens be their maids and butlers.
;)
"...and have American citizens be their maids and butlers."
No way, bud! I'm not going to work in NOLA until the insurgient situation is secure and the troops are redeployed to Mandeville, Slidell, and Laplace.
That's why, born poor, I decided to work hard and become rich. It was a good decision.
When people complain to me and pull out that victim business, they're talking to the wrong person.
I worked my way through college and medical school, and I earned every penny I have. I also put my wife through four years of college, though she was from a wealthy family; her parents didn't approve of me, and, frankly, I didn't blame them. I got my mother through college by teaching her every night at the kitchen table, though she payed for it herself. I sent each of my children through college three times. When I got rich, I set up a scholarship fund to send indigent people to college. The target group was adults, especially people with children who wanted to better themselves, but there were no classifications (no racial, gender, sexual-orientation, ethnic, health, age, etc. barriers)--and this was before laws were passed to regulate such things; I did not discriminate on any basis (I don't need government to regulate my morality). I don't know how may people I have educated, and I don't care. The way I have lived my life is between God and me.
My wife and I lived on $190 a month, and from that I paid her college tuition.
We live a cushy, extravagant, and oh-is-it-happy!!! life now, but if we had to, we could go back to sleeping on concrete blocks and cooking on a used hotplate.
Never trade in your hobnail boots for velvet slippers! I never shall!
I'm sorry, but why is the government responsible for these people? If a hurricane or tornado destroyed my house, I would be grateful for a shelter for a couple of days and then I would handle things myself. And the shelter would likely be from the Red Cross and not paid for by Washington or Austin.
Most of these people are living better on the governments dole right now than they have ever lived before. So the house/apartment you rented was trashed in the storm. There are other places to live, most these people have moved out of N.O. and have no intention of going back.
I enlisted in the Army at 17 with not much more than the clothes on my back. I have WORKED my whole life for what I have, and when things did not go well, I WORKED HARDER and carried my own weight. And don't start with the racial minority stuff, I am half Hopi Tribe from Arizona and the Native Americans have the longest history of poor treatment of any racial group in the country.
We teach people these days that you need not be responsible anymore. The government will feed, clothe and house you. Just wail about being oppressed or your 5 times removed great-great-great-grandfather may have been a slave. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
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