HUD out of luck
The Housing and Urban Development Program is known for its efforts to renovate/build houses to green standards in minority communities by providing all kinds of grants, but they have other subsidiaries that also carry out those tasks, such as ACORN(Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now) who receive their funds from HUD. This is set to change as the Senate had an amendment passed due to suspected fraudulent activities. The issue on hand is that two filmmakers are believed to had dressed as a pimp and an associate obtaining information on how to use a mortgage to start a brothel and how to evade the IRS. The question at hand is,”Who is at fault?”. The employees that had given out the information were fired, but why did the suspected filmmakers go inside in the first place. Well unfortunately, there is no answer to that question, but it was speculated that the filmmakers were inspired by special interests. When it comes down to it, it is hard to see how the Senate can regulate who the funding goes to, but there is a slew of guidelines that are regulated by the federal government that they must follow, even though they are giving out grants.
In a statement on his Senate Web site, Johanns said,” The amendment’s passage was a bipartisan move to stop tax dollars from supporting fraudulent organizations and activities.”
Via HousingWire
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