Navajo Nation leaders talk housing needs with HUD Secretary

Wednesday, September 18, 2013  

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)