Word: hud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...house near me worth a minimum of $65,000 was recently offered for sale by HUD for $50,000 (mistake No. 1). I bid $58,100, but lost it to a bid of $54,000 because the Government decided to accept the lower offer even before the bids were opened (mistake No. 2). One bumbled sale a real estate depression does not make. But if it's happening in my neighborhood, you have to wonder whether it won't be happening in others as well...
Related to the issue of national strength is the issue of international purpose. How active is our friendship for liberty supposed to be? HUD Secretary Jack Kemp sometimes gives the impression that if he were ever to become President, he would show up with megaphone and pompons wherever in the world there was a pro-democracy rally. Such enthusiasm strikes most conservatives as suspicious -- liberal, even. If we expect the world to mind its own business, we should mind ours...
...July, Joseph Monticciolo, the former New York regional administrator for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, contended that D'Amato had repeatedly pressured him to approve housing projects. Many of them, HUD documents show, were in Puerto Rico, which the regional office administered. Last week HUD Secretary Jack Kemp decided to move Puerto Rico operations out of the New York region, which would put them beyond D'Amato's reach. D'Amato also helped gain HUD financing for work in his hometown on Long Island, where his brother Armand, a lawyer, profited from the closings on house sales. Armand...
...wait, there's still Secretary Samuel Pierce and the HUD scandal. Savings and loans continue to hemorrhage red ink. And after 10 years of investigation, the Wedtech scandal has finally put Edwin Meese-chum Robert Wallach behind bars...
Haar also pointed out that while HUD Secretary Jack Kemp initially supported the bill, the issue defies party allegiance both in its supporters and its detractors...