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Article: HUD Headquarters Relocates to Los Angeles for a Day as Cuomo Announces Crime-Fighting Program and Other Aid
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- February 18, 1998
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Secretary Andrew Cuomo
and top aides relocated U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) headquarters to Los Angeles for a day today "to
strengthen HUD's successful partnership with Los Angeles" and to
announce $5.7 million in assistance -- including $1 million in new
crime-fighting grants for Los Angeles and nearby Compton.
Cuomo said $750,000 in Safe Neighborhood Grants for Los Angeles
and $250,000 for Compton are part of a campaign to reduce violence,
illegal drug activity and other crime in and around public housing
and other HUD-assisted affordable housing developments. He also
announced that nearly $1.2 million in additional ...