Word: hud
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...perform well. Evidence abounds that companies can provide many services more cheaply than governments can. When Los Angeles County reviewed the results of its extensive privatization, it found that it was saving $23 million a year on 450 contracts. A study by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) found that cities that have not privatized spend an average of 96% more to build streets than they would if they used contractors, 43% more to clean streets, and 73% more for janitorial services...
...cowboy blarney better than Larry McMurtry, elegist of the old Southwest and observer of the new culture in the Sunbelt, where the air conditioner is king. Yet his novels are not nearly as well known as the movies made from them. Horseman, Pass By is more recognizable as Hud. The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment have had far more viewers than readers. Lonesome Dove, McMurtry's tenth novel, is probably stampeding toward the screen at this moment. But first things first...
...Peter J. Centenari, a HUD spokesman, disagreed on the degree to which the cuts would impact Cambridge. "It is too premature to say how the cuts will affect Cambridge. Not everyone has all the facts," he said yesterday...
Centenari disagreed with Cambridge, officials fears. "The Secretary [of HUD] and the President are both deeply committed to expanding home ownership opportunities around the country...the government's position is to continue to provide housing for the most needy...
However, "as presented, The President's HUD budget almost assuredly will not pass," said Richard S. Goldstein, counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Employment and Housing. He said the Congress would probably not such heavy cuts in housing...