Southeast

Funding Available to Help Connect Small Businesses to DOT Contracts
   Between $125,000 and $145,000 is available for business-focused community organizations and others in the South Atlantic region, which includes North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
posted 1/25/13 12:13 PM  read complete story

Georgia Spends One-Third of CDBG Funds to Improve Sewers
   Georgia's Department of Community Affairs (DCA) provides more than $36 million in CDBG funds to help finance projects in 74 communities statewide, with more than one-third of the funds going toward sewer improvements. Twenty-seven of the DCA CDBG projects are being used for sewer improvements, work...
posted 9/5/12 1:20 PM  read complete story

Memphis Uses Bloomberg Grant to Eliminate Blight
   The city of Memphis is moving to eliminate blight, aid businesses and attract retail firms in three neighborhoods with different economic conditions. Memphis financed the effort through Bloomberg Philanthropies' Innovation Delivery Teams initiative, which awarded the city $5 million to solve challe...
posted 7/23/12 1:16 PM  read complete story

Florida Counties Drafting 50-Year Sustainability Plan
   Seven counties in southeast Florida are drafting a 50-year sustainability plan that will provide socially inclusive communities, an improved economy and environmental stewardship. Officials with the South Florida Regional Planning Council and the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council head the...
posted 7/9/12 09:37 AM  read complete story

Hialeah Seeks Data Behind CDBG, HOME Funding Cuts
   Hialeah, FL officials are asking HUD to show them how the city's Community Development Block Grant and HOME Investment Partnership Program allocations fell by nearly 50% in FY 2012. The cuts are some of the largest among the nation's most-populated entitlement communities. HUD last week issued th...
posted 1/24/12 1:29 PM  read complete story

(HOPWA) Collaboration Key to HUD Grant Award, Nonprofit Says
   The Jacksonville, FL-based nonprofit River Region Human Services Inc. (RRHS) can move forward on a project to provide 125 units for those suffering from AIDS after HUD awarded it a $1.35 million grant. RRHS is one of seven groups receiving nearly $9 million in HUD funding through the Housing Opport...
posted 9/26/11 09 AM  read complete story

(PROPERTY TAKING) Eminent Domain Legislation Moves
   Protection of property rights in Virginia moves a step close to a constitutional amendment when the state House of Delegates approves the legislation, 83-15. The resolution, HJ 693, has been approved by both houses of the General Assembly and has been retired for the year. The amendment would take ...
posted 2/25/11 4:33 PM  read complete story

(CONFLICT OF INTEREST) Conflict Clash Costs Florida City
   A HUD inspector general audit shows the city of Deerfield Beach on Florida’s southeast coast owes the department $395,298 because Community Development Block Grants were awarded to firms linked to a city commissioner. HUD refuses to ease the penalty because the city fails to disclose favoritism when...
posted 2/25/11 4:28 PM  read complete story

(ELECTIONS) Florida Voters Strike Down Anti-Growth Amendment
   Florida voters overwhelmingly defeat a state constitutional amendment Nov. 2 that would have required voter approval for all changes to local comprehensive land use plans. Changing the state Constitution would have required 60% of voters to vote "yes" on the measure. Instead, roughly 67% voted agai...
posted 11/5/10 11:52 AM  read complete story

(GRANTS) NSP-1 Recipients Draw Down 40 Percent of Obligated Money
   Recipients of first-round Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP-1) funding have already put 40% of the money out on the street far ahead of spending deadlines, according to the latest HUD data. When Congress approved NSP-1 in 2008, it set an 18-month deadline for recipients to commit money for sp...
posted 9/10/10 11:44 AM  read complete story