Sentences with phrase «housing block grant funds»

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SNA said it supports the Senate agreement on school nutrition standards, and opposes the House bill, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, which would restrict school eligibility for CEP and institute a block grant pilot that would cut funds for school meal programs.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA Stony Point — County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef presented a total of $ 2.67 million in federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding to various municipal and not - for - profit groups at an award ceremony held ironically in Stony Point, the town that traditionally receives the least amount of support from the Community Block Grant -LSB-...]

Elected officials stood in Middletown Thursday to announce $ 11.5 million in additional Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant Disaster Relief funding for Orange County.

Stony Point — County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef presented a total of $ 2.67 million in federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding to various municipal and not - for - profit groups at an award ceremony held ironically in Stony Point, the town that traditionally receives the least amount of support from the Community Block Grant Program.

Through funding provided by the Erie County Community Development Block Grant Program, eligible households wishing to connect their houses to new community sewer and water lines can receive up to $ 5,000 to help with associated costs.

Also dismaying to the mayor was the possible loss of Community Development Block Grant money, which funds everything from infrastructure to affordable housing to anti-poverty programs, and the elimination of assistance to the poor and elderly.

The Community Development Block Grant is funding distributed by the federal government to local governments and states to use on housing and economic and social development.

The city determined that it would be able to use a portion of its federal Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant Program — Disaster Relief funds to cover this $ 28 million investment in SIUH's resiliency program.

Meanwhile, his administration has failed to clean up its mismanagement of the Community Development Block Grant program — the federally funded anti-poverty program — prompting the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in April to designate Buffalo as one of only a handful of «high risk» recipients across the nation.

Federal housing officials have issued yet another critical review of Buffalo's use of Community Development Block Grant funds.

The $ 3.2 million project was also funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, NJ Housing Mortgage Finance Agency, Union County HOME program and Community Development Block Grant.

Introduced in the House of Representatives in January 2017, H.R. 610 would replace parts of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act and would, among other changes, establish a voucher program «through which each state shall distribute block grant funds among local educational agencies.»

To entice a presidential signature of the legislation — which would create tax breaks for parents» public and private education expenses — House and Senate negotiators have included a new reading program in it and deleted language that would have blocked plans for new national tests and transformed most federal education funding into block grants.

With the Senate joining the House in advancing bills that would replace dozens of vocational - education and job - training programs with block grants, educators are trying to assess the likely impact of handing most authority over federal funding in those areas to states and their governors.

House Republicans caught a lot of heat from Democrats last winter over their plan, still pending, to dismantle the federal school - lunch program and wrap its funding into a child - nutrition block grant to the states.

The Trump - DeVos budget and the House Appropriation Committee bill raid student aid programs — including the federal Pell Grant reserve, which the federal government slowly established after an inadequate rainy day fund led to painful cuts56 to the program — by $ 3.9 billion and $ 3.3 billion, respectively.57 The Pell Grant is the fundamental building block of financial aid support for low - income students.

This exhibition is made possible in part by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which is funded through Community Development Block Grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

In addition to child care and preschool services, Early Head Start and Head Start offer prenatal education, job - training and adult education, and assistance in accessing housing and insurance.50 However, Early Head Start presently serves only approximately 3 % of low - income families.51 The Child Care Development Block Grants Act of 2014 and subsequent appropriations also provide child care subsidies for low - income working families and funds to improve child care quality, in addition to new and needed protections to keep children safe and healthy when they are being cared for outside the home.52

This program is made possible with funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through its Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Program.

The HUD recovery funds, similar to those authorized for disaster recovery efforts in Puerto Rico, are via HUD's Community Development Block Grant — Disaster Recovery (CDBG - DR) Program and «support long - term recovery, including infrastructure, seriously damaged housing, and economic recovery in the Territory» according to the HUD more...