Community Development budgets to be dismantled
Message from Bill Himes, one of our Central Committee members:
"I came across this information concerning President Bush’s proposed 2006 budget. The president’s budget would cut spending by $1 billion and dismantle community Development as we know it, consolidating it along with other several other programs and moving them from under Housing and Urban Development to the Commerce Department. Currently the 2006 budget passed by the House goes along with the president’s request. The Senate’s version is a little better. It’s unclear whether the Senate’s will survive in the eventual House-Senate compromise budget. In the last 3 years CDBG funds have provided nearly $5 million to improve conditions in our city. Please read the attached Information and use the sample letter that is attached or compose your own to mail your thoughts to your elected officials."
Here is a link to OMB if you want to check out the details of the proposed budget. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
1 Comments:
Thanks Bill My Hero! Sioux City has received CDBG funding since 1974 and the funds have been used for housing rehabilitation and public improvements in Riverside, Greenville, Rose Hill, Jones Street, Mid-City, and Prospect Hills. There have been programs for low-income families, children, the elderly, the disabled, and the homeless. Another chunk of block grant funds went toward development of Historic Fourth Street and saving historic buildings such as The Castle on the Hill, the old Carnegie Library, and the Call Terminal Building. It would be impossible for the City to replace these funds. There are still people in our town living on dirt roads with septic systems. There are red-tagged houses and others that should be. There are children living in unsafe housing. There are elderly folks living in houses falling down around them. It can not be stressed enough how profoundly correct John Kerry was in saying "We are buiding fire stations in Iraq and closing them in America."
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