 "The Daily Record (Baltimore)")
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MD's U.S. Senators seeking $600 million for HOPE VI grants
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Maryland's U.S. senators introduced a bill yesterday that would
reauthorize a public housing program that has vastly changed the
landscape of Baltimore - and many other American cities - during the
last decade.
HOPE VI, a federal program that provides grants intended to
transform dilapidated public housing projects that have resulted in
concentration of poor residents in distressed neighborhoods, is set
to expire in 2006. But a bill introduced by Democratic Sens. Barbara
A. Mikulski and Paul S. Sarbanes would authorize the grants through
2011.
HOPE VI was the program that spurred the ...
