HUD Awards $10.4 Million in Grants to 13 Historically Black Colleges and Universities
HUD News Release 06-110
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson and Education Secretary Margaret Spellings today announced 13 historically Black colleges and universities would receive $10.4 million to help revitalize neighborhoods near their campuses.
"These grants will help ensure these colleges continue to educate many of the nation's African American physicians, lawyers and business leaders while also being able to revitalize the communities that surround them," Jackson said.
"Throughout the nation, we have seen HBCUs breathe life into struggling college towns and blighted urban neighborhoods."
HUD's HBCU program funds grantees to carry out projects designed primarily to benefit low- and moderate-income residents, help prevent or eliminate slums or blight, or meet urgent community development needs in their localities.
Since 1991, HUD has awarded more than $59 million to HBCUs to stimulate economic and community development activities.
The HBCU Program is one of several initiatives administered by HUD's Office of University Partnerships (OUP).
Established in 1994, OUP is a catalyst for partnering colleges and universities with their communities in a shared search for answers to pressing urban problems.
