U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan recently published an op-ed piece in the Washington Post in response to a front-page story last month entitled, “Million Dollar Wasteland,” which criticized the management of HUD’s HOME Program. Donovan’s piece corrects the article’s misgivings and quantifies the success of the HOME program to date, noting that the program “produced more than a million affordable homes in the past two decades and leverages nearly $4 of private and other public investment for every dollar it invests.”
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