HUD money going to area housing projects

BLUEFIELD — Housing authorities in southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia are among the many entities across the nation sharing more than $3 billion of federal funding that will be spent on improving the public housing that many people call home. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, also known as HUD, awarded $3.17 billion Tuesday in Public Housing Repair funding to 2,756 public housing authorities in all 50 state including cities and entities in southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia. One of these recipients, the Housing Authority of...