Thursday, September 27, 2007

More Housing Woes in MississippiThe Department of Housing and Urban Development needs to take a close look at how Mississippi is spending its emergency federal aid.

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As the poorest state in the country, Mississippi should have no trouble finding low- and moderate-income homeowners to share in the more than $5 billion in emergency federal aid funneled into the state after Hurricane Katrina. But a startling new analysis by a coalition of state and national housing advocates accuses Mississippi of using loopholes in the law to spend far too much on middle- and upper-income households and far too little on those most in need of help.

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