HUD OKs &#36;4.2B for La. rebuilding program
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The federal government will pay &#36;4.2 billion into a program to help Louisiana residents rebuild or sell houses severely damaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, officials said Tuesday.
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The House unanimously signed off Monday on a $2.9 billion state spending plan for Louisiana's public schools, submitted by the state education board.  House Concurrent Resolution 208, the spending plan for the 2007- 08 school year, would increase public school spending by $209 million.
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 7--BILOXI -- The Biloxi City Council chose a firm to devise a new post-Katrina comprehensive plan Tuesday and also discussed widening the time frame for homeowners to build back at lower elevations.
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Construction of new homes and apartments rose 4.7 percent in January to the highest level in over two decades as low mortgage rates continued to power the nation's housing industry.
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In December, D.C. developer Joe Horning Horning is to unveil the results of the $40 million renovation project.
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Owners protected 37 million acres from development last year, a 54 percent jump from 2000.
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ST. FRANCISVILLE - Volunteers moved a step closer to their goal of building the first Habitat for Humanity home in West Feliciana Parish with the donation of land for the project last month.
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The massive federally funded program for rebuilding hurricane-damaged Louisiana homes is short nearly $3 billion largely because Louisiana officials are compensating thousands of homeowners who were not originally supposed to benefit, according to an analysis by the Bush administration.
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The House on Thursday passed a &#36;145.9 billion package of tax relief to extend three popular middle-class tax cuts, giving President Bush his fourth major tax victory since taking office.
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Despite slow progress in rebuilding some neighborhoods, New Orleans' population is nearing 300,000, or about 65 percent of its pre-Hurricane Katrina size, according to a new report.
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Boosting homeownership tops President Bush's housing agenda, but the biggest battle facing his administration during the second term is how to overhaul a program that helps 2 million poor families pay their rent.
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By Jasmine Kripalani, The Miami Herald  Sep. 17--County commissioners gave the go-ahead Tuesday for a $2.73 million bond to help build a mixed-use affordable-housing project in South Miami and extend the city's Community Redevelopment Agency until 2020.
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A U.S. development agency signed contracts worth $40 million Monday aimed at boosting the housing industry and small business in Ukraine, and said it is prepared to spend up to $2 billion in the former Soviet ...
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 13--A revised federal plan to speed home and institutional building in coastal wetlands has been released for public review and comments.   The U.S.
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The federal government awarded nearly $1.4 billion in grants to support local homeless programs Tuesday, a slight increase from the amount doled out a year ago.
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By CityBusiness, New Orleans  The $185-million refurbishment of the Superdome will be completed in time for the eagerly anticipated New Orleans Saints home opener in two weeks on Monday Night Football against the rival Atlanta Falcons.
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By AMY WOLD  NEW ORLEANS - A federal coastal-restoration task force is combing the books for money to get more projects built.