Word: hud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue of housing vouchers represents "the next great American debate on the subject of race," suggesting that the proposal is objectionable to those who want to keep poor minorities concentrated in the inner cities. Such a notion is hardly news to Maxine Evans, 27, who last year used a hud voucher to move out of public housing in Robbins, Illinois, to a more spacious private apartment in the racially mixed community of Blue Island. "Some people make it hard," she says. "They think folks that come from the projects don't take care of things. But I'm proud...
...platform of inclusion" was the most likely to position the party for long-term strength. Kemp tempered his endorsement by stressing that he was not campaigning against Dole, but his announcement will hurt the Kansas senator in tomorrow's New York primary. Kemp, a former New York congressman and HUD secretary, is one of the few prominent Republicans with strong support from both moderate and conservative voters, and had been touted as a possible white knight who could claim the Republican nomination himself if the party arrived at its August convention without a consensus. Today's announcement, along with Dole...
...federal grand jury that investigated 1980s influence-peddling at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He could serve as many as six months in jail pand pay a $5,000 fine. Watt previously had denied charges that he tried to cover up his efforts to win contracts from HUD after leaving the government in 1983. But faced with 18 felony counts for perjury, he acknowledged that he kept documents secret that had been relevant to the grand jury's investigation, and by so doing reduced his charges to one misdemeanor conviction of withholding information. "HUD has been a hotbed...
...community facing a "housing crisis from federal cuts, state cuts, loss of rent control and HUD deregulation," Cantabrigian Cheryl Pizza said. "Harvard has to do better...
Forbes said he decided to enter the presidential race in order to fill the void left when former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp decided not to run for president...