HUD Honors Bowling Green Kentucky with Award for Increasing Affordable Housing
Local efforts seen as national model for cutting red tape
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today presented the City of Bowling Green with its Robert L. Woodson, Jr. Award for reducing burdensome regulations that unnecessarily inflate the cost of housing. HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson recognized Bowling Green as a national model for reducing unnecessary, outdated, and duplicative regulations that put the cost of housing out of reach of police officers, firefighters, teachers, returning veterans, and many other hardworking Americans.
The Robert L. Woodson, Jr. Award is named in memory of HUD's late chief of staff and is designed to recognize state and local governments who aggressively work to reduce regulatory barriers to affordable housing. HUD's Senior Counsel Bryant Applegate presented the award to Mayor Elaine Walker during a meeting of the City of Bowling Green Commission.
"When working families can't afford to live in their own communities because of excessive regulations, it's time for some honest soul-searching," said Jackson. "Bowling Green is working overtime to remove excessive and burdensome regulations that have long outlived their usefulness and, in the process, they are putting out the welcome mat for hardworking police officers, firefighters, teachers and other civil servants -- people anyone would be proud to call "neighbor."
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