[CPEO-BIF] Louisiana's "Road Home"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Road Home properties face inspection crunch

by Ariella Cohen
New Orleans City Business
July 28, 2008

After months of behind-the-scenes delays, the Louisiana Land Trust is 
moving forward with thousands of final environmental reviews that must 
be done before Road Home properties can be returned to the market.

Federal environmental law requires that all properties rehabilitated 
under a U.S. grant program such as The Road Home undergo a site-specific 
environmental review. The state has known about this requirement since 
the 2005 inception of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development-funded program. But while other details of the program's 
implementation have long since been ironed out, the environmental 
inspection requirement remained unresolved until last week.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=31386

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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