Word: udag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember all kinds of people, not just Republicans -- Democrats, friends, others -- that would talk to me about a UDAG. The first thing I'd tell them is, "Look, these are decided on a formula basis. I can't guarantee how it's going to come out." However, because of the mod-rehab program's discretionary nature, there was a possibility of someone personally influencing a decision...
...funds for any new construction of public housing and only reluctantly spared a program which would enable local goverments to help landlords rehabilitate low-income rental units. At the same time, the Administration, for the seventh year in a row, tried to fully drop the Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) program, which aims at encouraging private development of low-income housing in distressed areas. Each year the Congress, Democratic House and Republican Senate alike, stopped the Administration...
...same attitude characterized the Administration's latest budget proposal. There were a couple differences, though, since it is an election year. Even though he continued to oppose the UDAG program, Reagan, with Bush by his side, allowed for the building of new government-subsidized rental units. The Administration had always forcefully opposed such building before...
...search for areas to cut He is locked into expenditures beyond even his cutting reach--interest on the national debt, social security, military, civil service and veterans' pensions, and the President's commitments to defense and agri-business Therefore the $8.5 billion in annual outlays for GRS, CDBG and UDAG are a tempting target...
Stockman, who had opposed all of the programs as a member of the House of Representatives, persuaded Mr. Reagan to eliminate the UDAG funds in the first budget he sent to Congress in February 1981. That decision was reversed only by a face-to-face appeal to the President and his aides Edwin Meese and James Baker by a dozen mayors. These mayors and their colleagues not present at the meeting, but whose support was enlisted in an intense lobbying effort, stood together, Republican and Democrat. Such unity of purpose among the mayors, regardless of Party, was not evidenced again...