Word: hud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kemp said he was suspending new and pending applications for the Retirement Service Center program, the third program he has moved against as a part of an investigation of suspected fraud and mismanagement at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) during the administration of President Ronald W. Reagan...
...less than six months on the job, Kemp also has suspended or canceled two other programs: HUD's rental rehabilitation program and a loan insurance program that financed such luxury projects as golf course condominiums...
...many of those projects, HUD and congressional investigators have determined that politically connected consultants helped win HUD's backing of the developments...
...HUD Secretary, Jack Kemp, promises to clean up the mess that Pierce and his cohort left behind. Kemp has canceled all 1989 Moderate Rehabilitation programs, called for an audit of 300 housing projects that have already received rent subsidies and demanded that 53 HUD field officers explain what happened to the funds that appear to be missing. "There's much work to do here, and I enjoy it," says Kemp. "President Bush has charged me with the responsibility to reform the agency from stem to stern, and that's what I intend to do." He has his task...
Breaking with Ronald Reagan's inaction, President Bush proposes an attack on acid rain, smog and toxic chemicals. -- A spreading scandal in federal housing programs shows how the greedy, instead of the needy, profited under former HUD secretary "Silent Sam" Pierce...