Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson announces the allocation of $11.5 billion in community development block grant funds to disaster affected states: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Texas.
Jackson describes the process of distributing the federal housing grant money to the Gulf Coast states damaged by hurricanes in 2005. (0:48)
January 25, 2006
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