Political Quotes

“I must note that our first priority for HUD is demand that it more adequately address its principal responsibilities over loan and grant programs for housing and community development. We have worked to drastically cut back on the thicket of programs that it amassed over the years, some 240 individual activities. Though terminations and by consolidating related activities in more flexible, broadly-based grant programs we are reducing burdensome paperwork requirements both for HUD and for the local administering agency. Furthermore, by granting flexibility, we hope to enable local units of government to better tailor programs to meet their specific local needs and priorities. With this orientation, we must be restrained in our appetite for endorsing new programs or initiatives or risk turning back the clock on our reforms by creating a whole new set of categorical programs and requirements.”