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FEMA settled a disagreement Wednesday with one of the nation s lar stanley flask gest mortgage lenders to help 1,500 Hurricane Katrina families into rent-free houses for 18 months.Responding to a complaint by a Democratic congressman, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it would take Fannie Mae up on its offer to provide 1,500 homes mdash; many of them single-family houses mdash; to Katrina evacuees. We have struck an agreement with Fannie Mae, which removes some of the barriers toward placing people in the homes, said FEMA spokesman Butch Kinerney. He said the agreement protects the privacy of the evacuees but also gets them into some stanley flasche really exceptional housing before the holidays. FEMA began calling eligible families Wednesday, so we re going to be moving stanley kubek people fairly quickly, Kinerney said.The decision reflects an about-face in negotiations between FEMA and Fannie Mae that began two months ago. Fannie Mae is the second largest financial institution the United States. Fannie Mae offered the housing units mdash; located in nine Southern states mdash; to FEMA, state agencies, charities and other relief groups seeking temporary homes for evacuees. But the mortgage company wanted to continue letting potential buyers in to view the homes mdash; a provision that FEMA said would violate evacuees privacy.Last Friday, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, D-Miss., complained that FEMA was failing to provide housing for evacuees after setting a Tneg Report: Lead in 20% of baby food samples tested
CNN -- Some supporters of President-elect Donald Trump have praised his choice of Ben Carson to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, noting that the retired neurosurgeon had lived in public housing himself.Except he didn t.Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, in an attack on House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi Monday, inaccurately claimed that Carson lived in government housing. Ben Carson is first H nike af UD Sec to have actually lived in gov t housing. Fancy Nancy Pelosi says he s not qualified; is she racist or just dumb, Huckabee tweeted.The New York Times issued a correction Monday after saying that Carson aide Armstrong Williams originally told the paper that Carson was raised in public housing. Us mizuno laufschuhe ing information from a close friend of Ben Carson, the nominee for housing secretary, an earlier version of this article misstated that Mr. Carson spent part of his childhood in public housing, the Times wrote. The friend, Armstrong Williams, said Monday that Mr. Carson had never lived in government housing. Carson has said he was raised chanclas yeezy in the ghetto and in dire poverty. Dr. Carson s mother worked 3 jobs at a time to keep them out of public housing, but he grew up around many who utilized housing programs, Williams tweeted Monday. |
