Housing plan put on back burner
By CHRISTINA E. SANCHEZ
Herald Tribune
PALMETTO — Agencies that assist the poor do not routinely return millions of dollars they got in a federal grant. Yet the Manatee County Housing Authority says it has no choice.
The authority manages a south Manatee County apartment complex for low-income families and a countywide rental assistance program. In September 2003, it secured a $3 million federal grant to expand its mission and build affordable, quality homes for farmworkers.
By now, the new housing was supposed to bring relief to farmworkers who live in deteriorated, cockroach- and rat-infested units at rents of up to $1,000 a month.
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