Leaders of the Navajo NationDepartment of Housing and Urban Development, in Washington, D.C., on September 12.

President Ben Shelly said the tribe needs $13 billion to address housing needs on the reservation. The figure includes $4 billion in an area of Arizona that was under the Bennett Freeze, a Bureau of Indian Affairs policy that prohibited development for decades.

"Our housing need in the Bennett Freeze is $4 billion. Added to our known need of $9 billion, the Navajo Nation has a $13 billion housing need," Shelly said in a press release.

In the current fiscal year, the tribe plans to spend $137 million on housing projects.

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President Shelly: Navajo Nation faces $13 billion housing need (The Navajo-Hopi Observer 9/17)