HUD's Youthbuild Program Delivers $54 Million For Skills and Leadership Training
Program participants will produce more than 1,000 affordable homes
WASHINGTON - Nearly four thousand young people who never finished high school will get a second chance to receive their diplomas because of $54 million in grants announced today by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson. The grants are part of HUD's Youthbuild Program to offer job training and leadership skills to young people while putting them back on a path toward graduation. These grants will help train them for a future in the construction trades while producing more than 1,000 homes for lower income families, many facing homelessness.
"This funding will offer hope and opportunity to young men and women across the country," said Jackson. "Youthbuild enables them to return to the classroom, acquire construction skills and put their minds and hands to work producing more affordable housing in their own communities."
Program participants will receive on-the-job training in the building trades and help build and renovate homes that are then sold at affordable prices to low- and very low-income persons as well as to homeless individuals and families. In addition, these grants are anticipated to generate millions of additional dollars from other public and private sources.
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