On the recordMarch 29, 2000
What is at stake here is really the future of the Community Development Block Grant. The CDBG is not a revenue sharing measure; it is a measure that is supposed to be addressed to moderately low-income people. It is meant to build housing, to provide safe, healthy housing for people who cannot afford market rents. It is meant to help provide economic development and jobs for people who are low- and moderately low-income. It is not meant to simply redistribute money from the Federal Government to the State and local governments for any purposes whatsoever. My concern with this amendment...is whether we would undermine the primary mission of the Community Development Block Grant program in order to try and speak to an admittedly popular public works issue, which is the development of fire houses and related services.
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