HUD Wants to Help Brooklyn Churches Build Affordable Housing

As Albany struggles — and struggles — to pass measures foster more affordable housing development, some federal housing officials are encouraging churches to fill in the gap.

Last week, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia Fudge and regional administrator Alicka Ampry-Samuel held a roundtable with pastors and developers in Brooklyn to help kick-start housing development on their properties that could allow congregants to stay in the neighborhoods where they have lived for much of their lives.

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