GREAT NEWS! Lake Worth Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) gets $23 million plus NSP2 Grant!

Click title for link to document. Many communities and agencies applied and did not receive funding. Highly competitive and this will help stem the foreclosure crisis in an area of critical need within Lake Worth.

This is the grant that the CRA applied for in July while I sat on the board. A month later, the Board was called before the City Commission and chastised for acting independently. Commissioner Golden said that we shouldn't have applied for the grant as we know how to spend our money better than the federal government does - we don't need to be told how to do it.

She used the application for the grant in her campaign materials.

The amount of the grant is a little more than half of the city of Lake Worth's annual general fund budget.

Florida	$ 348,311,034
City of Sarasota	$ 23,000,000
Habitat for Humanity International, Inc.	$ 74,698,534
Housing Authority of the City of Tampa	$ 38,000,000
Lake Worth Community Redevelopment Agency	$ 23,237,500
Neighborhood Housing Services of South Florida, Inc.	$ 89,375,000
Neighborhood Lending Partners of West Florida, Inc.	$ 50,000,000
Palm Beach County	$ 50,000,000