Kent County Today

U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) gave $6.9 million in funding to Delaware public housing authorities. 

The funding will be used to improve public properties throughout Delaware.

“As I tour public housing properties throughout the region, I see the overwhelming need for improvements that are well beyond routine maintenance,” HUD Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Joseph DeFelice told the Dover Post. “While HUD’s capital funds will help, public-private partnerships are the key to leveraging capital that will have a meaningful and lasting impact – one that will truly revitalize communities.”

The funding will go to the Delaware State Housing Authority, the Dover Housing Authority, the Newark Housing Authority and the Wilmington Housing Authority. Grants are awarded nationwide through the HUD’s Capital Fund Program. 

The Capital Fund Program is designed to award annual grants to approximately 2,900 public housing authorities in the nation. The funds are meant to help with improving larger aspects of public housing, such as repairing and modernizing electrical systems, roofs or plumbing.  

Each state, including Washington, D.C, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, received $2.7 billion for public housing. The funding will allow states to make the housing improvements needed that go beyond basic repairs.