New Dispute Over Housing

The positive benefits of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act are beginning to show but a new dispute has emerged over housing in reservations.

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October 13, 2002, 12:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"When Indians agreed to relocate to reservations in the 19th century, one of the conditions was that the U.S. government provide them shelter... By most measures on the 2000 Census, America's 2.5 million American Indians had the worst housing of any ethnic group... In an effort to renovate a system that both sides agreed wasn't working, the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act was enacted six years ago, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development began handing over responsibility for housing to the tribes in the form of block grants. That law, the Indians feel, is the first to honor the government-to-government treaties they signed in the 1800s."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Read the full story: Dreaming of Homes On the Reservation

Sunday, October 13, 2002 in The Washington Post

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