Two federal lawmakers this week sent a letter to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requesting detailed accounting of more than 1,000 affordable-housing construction projects funded by the Department’s HOME Program. Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Tex.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee’s subcommittee on oversight and investigations, and Rep. Judy Biggert (R-Ill.), chairman of the panel’s subcommittee on insurance and housing requested budgets, construction schedules, completion dates and photos of construction sites for every major project funded before 2007.
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