Covington residents sounded off this week on how the city should spend its roughly $5.4 million in federal grant money. Several key themes stood out: affordable housing, maintaining infrastructure for existing families, green space and housing equity. The comments took place at the meeting of the Covington Board of Commissioners Tuesday night as part of […]
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Tell the City of Covington how to spend its federal grant money
Covington residents can now tell the city how it should spend grants it received from the federal government. Specifically, the city is seeking feedback on how to allocate money from two federal programs administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD: the Community Development Block Grant, or CDBG, program and the HOME […]
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Covington mayor asks federal government not to cut housing funding
Covington Mayor Ron Washington is advocating against cuts at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, known more commonly as HUD. “I want to talk about these cuts not as a partisan issue – the politics of this is almost irrelevant – but about the reality of the damage this will do to us,” […]