Kennedy Announces $20 Million for 10 Massachusetts Cities and Towns

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Kennedy Announces $20 Million for 10 Massachusetts Cities and Towns

Senator Kennedy announced today that the Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded federal grants totaling 20 million dollars to ten cities towns in Massachusetts to provide improved housing for local residents.

Chicopee, Fall River, Fitchburg, Framingham, Holyoke, Pittsfield, Leominster, Lowell, Waltham and Westfield will receive funds under the Community Development Block Grant program to provide job opportunities and affordable housing for low and moderate income families.

Fall River, Fitchburg, Holyoke, and Lowell will also receive funds under the Emergency Shelter Grant program to build much needed shelters for the homeless.

Fitchburg, Holyoke and Lowell will receive funds as well under the Home Investment Partnership program, for housing assistance to low and very low income families, and Lowell will also receive a grant under the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS program to build affordable housing and provide support services for low-income persons with HIV/AIDS.

“These grants will enable many of our cities and towns to provide much better housing for their residents who could not otherwise afford it.” Senator Kennedy said. “With housing prices at historically high levels and more and more families squeezed by the rising costs of everything from health care to gasoline, this HUD assistance is timely and well-deserved, and I commend our communities for their initiatives.”

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1. Wow.

And here I thought Western Mass didn't exist as far as the East was concerned.