Posted on 05/11/2023 11:53:03 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Biden administration announced it is providing more than $830 million to help make low-income housing energy efficient using funds from the Inflation Reduction Act that passed last year.
The White House said in a release on Thursday that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is making the money available through a funding notice for the Inflation Reduction Act’s Green and Resilient Retrofit Program, which makes investments in energy and water efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, generating clean energy and implementing climate strategies in multifamily housing.
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Kill HUD.
My neighbor is an inspector for this program. It’s a scam and a joke.
Heat pumps in multi-family dwellings will be mold-ridden nightmares...
Another billion dollars of our money pi$$ed by the traitors in DC.
There’s one budget item we can cut to avoid the debt ceiling.
Do tell me more
Contractors must be on an approved list. (Bribe time)
Each stage of work gets inspected for partial and final payment. This is coordinated along with the regional utility companies.
Most the homes have received zero maintenance for the past 30 years and are uninsurable. Rotted floors, broken sewer lines from house to curb, out of code wiring and plumbing, termite damaged, and just pure neglect.
Enter the assistance program.....What good are new windows when there is no wood left to nail into? Hooking up a new heat pump / A/C system that sanitary drains the condensate(law) into a sanitary drain line into a broken line in the yard? The house eventually floods and the yard is a mud pit.
What good is a new hot water heater if you have your water turned off for non-payment?
And so on........you get the picture.
Not to mention they usually can't even find the Auntee or grandmother that actually owns the house. The occupants are really just related squatters.
Mafia style payouts it sounds like.
The thievery of Federal funds will be though the roof there. Blacks and browns rule these low income housing projects. The way to steal these millions, is to have a few NGOs and corrupt charities that the Feds will never investigate, due to your skin color.
“Biden administration making $830 million for energy efficiency in low-income housing”
The “Colored People” scammers will steal these millions of dollars
“There’s one budget item we can cut to avoid the debt ceiling.”
That was my first thought.
Have these people never heard of “planning”.
As in “ I might get laid off work next week, so let’s not buy that new hot water heater.”
The primary aim of these programs is to grease the right palms and run it through “connected “ organizations which then funnel money back into campaign slush funds. Very little of the money goes to actually accomplishing what the program promises to do. Many, many new entities with little or no experience will suddenly materialize, and they will get the grants and contracts. Gotta get the money into the right hands, don’t you know.
Of course, no fines for the owners of these degraded buildings. Let’s just fix them off backs of taxpayers while the owners continue to get their rent money.
Of course, no fines for the owners of these degraded buildings. Let’s just fix them off backs of taxpayers while the owners continue to get their rent money.
“Not to mention they usually can’t even find the Auntee or grandmother that actually owns the house. The occupants are really just related squatters.”
That was a big problem after Hurricane Harvey. It took some time for actual ownership to be established, big problem when no one has kept up with the “title” since grandma died, people occupying house would have say a 1/6 ownership, the rest would belong to siblings, cousins, etc. It is just not good enough to say that “Grandma always said the house was mine”.
Like the old urban “winterizing” boondoggles.
So, dim twirly lightbulbs for free?
And yoots paid $20 an hour to screw them in?
It worked pretty well, but half the home building price was claimed under that program. Insane theft of taxpayer money.
I have a customer who was bidding the replacement of federal housing on one of the Indian reservations out west. The original buildings were 30 years old but needed to be torn down to the concrete foundation and start over again because of the neglect. There was nothing left in the structure. Not even in the frame that was salvageable.
He said we are lucky IF the concrete foundation is salvageable.
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