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Housing and Urban Development head HENRY CISNEROS, like Department of Energy chief Hazel O'Leary, is owning up to the alleged sins of past Administrations. hud sources say he plans to settle 17 discrimination lawsuits and to concede that for almost two decades HUD's housing projects promoted racial segregation by being built almost exclusively in low-income, minority areas. The first seven settlements will cost about $75 million; instead of receiving cash, the projects will be supplied with additional guards and washing machines...
Andrew Cuomo, who serves as HUD's czar for the homeless, is among those who dismiss such ideas. "You can't force people into treatment programs," he says. "It won't work." But Cuomo thinks he understands the roots of the backlash that Hamill represents. "People are afraid, and I think that fear is vented in terms of anger," he says. "They see all these groups that have raised hope by saying they could help, and the situation is worse now than it was 10 years...
...Clinton Administration, which has targeted homelessness as HUD's top priority, has the unenviable task of persuading Americans that the problem can be tamed, then finding the money to put more programs to work. For the current fiscal year, Cisneros has inherited a national homeless budget of $570 million -- barely more than the $500 million New York City alone spends on its local homeless problem. Cisneros has boosted next year's budget to $823 million, which seems woefully inadequate since he hopes to "not only deal with the people who are still on the street but work to keep people...
...cited the pieces of his HUD strategy which are already in place as examples of the government's focus on the individual: the expansion of the earned-income tax credit, an extension of low income housing credits, the establishment of the national service program, the expansion of Head Start, a strengthened Community Reinvestment Act and expanded job-training initiatives...
...resources, Cisneros said he has givenpriority to five initiatives: a"continuum-of-care" approach to homelessness,helping people move from lives of transiency andemergency shelter to permanent housing, workingwith public housing residents to help them gaincontrol over their communities and takingaggressive action to crack down on crime in publicand HUD-assisted housing...