PHILADELPHIA – Today, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Regional Administrator Joe DeFelice will visit Salisbury for a tour of HUD-assisted properties and projects.
DeFelice will start the day meeting with Don Bibb, executive director of the Wicomico County Housing Authority, and touring public housing in the area. He will then meet with Mayor Jacob Day to discuss HUD community partnerships and priorities, including efforts to end homelessness and Section 3 employment opportunities. He will wrap up his visit with a tour of Pine Bluff Village Apartments, a privately owned and managed property for seniors.
“I want to see HUD’s public-private partnerships at work,” said DeFelice. “I want to see and hear firsthand what’s working well and how we can do better.”
DeFelice was appointed regional administrator of HUD’s Mid-Atlantic region in May. Since assuming his position, he has been touring the region to see HUD’s impact on communities, visiting elected officials and local partners who oversee HUD-assisted housing, homeless service programs and community development projects.
HUD’s Mid-Atlantic region includes Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and West Virginia. The regional office is in Philadelphia. Follow Regional Administrator Joe DeFelice on Twitter for updates on his progress in touring Maryland and other parts of the region.
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7 comments:
I hope he stops Welfare waterfront tax payer $$$$$$
Coming to a neighborhood near you!!
Very-Low income residents subsidized to live in your neighborhood
Feds require expanding Section 8 & neighborhood targeting
Government bureaucrats are going to take your money and pay for “very low-income” people to move next door to you!!
You and I worked hard to purchase our homes and we live in the best neighborhood we can afford. Now, hard working taxpayers will be forced to pay for people who cannot afford it to live next door. Low-income families will be, “dispersed” into your neighborhood if they think it would be a good “opportunity for low and very low-income residents.” Of course, they are not going to move low-income people into the wealthy neighborhoods of the people promoting these bad policies.
If you don’t live in Baltimore County, it’s only a matter of time before this comes to your county. Middle class neighborhoods are the targets.
“Baltimore County pledges $30 million to help integrate housing. Baltimore County will invest $3 million annually for 10 years to develop or preserve 1,000 affordable housing units that will be geographically dispersed in neighborhoods with access to opportunity for low- and very low-income residents, stated the agreement. The county also will provide at least 2,000 Housing Choice Vouchers to assist families in finding housing in higher-opportunity neighborhoods.”
“This week’s agreement – to be announced, among others, by Gustavo Velasquez, assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – also calls on County Executive Kevin Kamenetz to introduce legislation in the County Council that would prohibit landlords from refusing to rent to tenants with Section 8 federal rental vouchers.”
https://baltimorebrew.com/2016/03/15/baltimore-county-pledges-30-million-to-help-integrate-housing/#comments
http://www.housingfinance.com/policy-legislation/settlement-to-increase-affordable-housing-in-baltimore-county_o
There was a vote this year on requiring property owners to accept Section 8 vouchers if they rent their home. It passed the House of Delegates and failed in the Senate.
Here is the vote in the House of Delegates:
http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=flrvotepage&tab=subject3&id=hb0172,h-0835&stab=02&ys=2017RS
6:54 AM yea I saw that article. smdh
Trump needs to STOP this Obama order.
6:54 is right. Hardworking middle-class being shafted...again. Now we will have drug dealers living next door putting our children at even greater risk while lowering our property values.
Salisbury and Fruitland, as I understand,is above 50 percent on some kind of welfare - food stamp; welfare checks; food banks; Medicaid;section 8. Where does it stop. Let's put these people next to our elected officials so the value of their neighborhood homes go down even further. I believe in helping people in need but generation after generation. It is time to reform welfare and social security disability.
isn't the waiting list for HUD in Wicomico county years long???
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