Housing Agency Gets Power Aid.The federal government will give $50 million to public housing authorities in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and nine other cities to help them pay utility bills that have soared because of rising power costs. The emergency relief effort will also provide $55 million to help the nation's other 3,100 public housing agencies pay utility bills that exceeded their budgets. The Housing Authority of the city of Los Angeles The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles is the public housing agency for Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1938. There are more than 60 public housing locations in Los Angeles. is the only California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). agency to qualify as one of the nation's 10 hardest-hit housing agencies, making it eligible for the additional federal assistance, said officials of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Los Angeles City Housing Authority's energy costs have been 24 percent higher than anticipated, HUD Hud (h  d), a pre-Qur'anic prophet of Islam. Hud unsuccessfully exhorted his South Arabian people, the Ad, to worship the One God. officials said.
The money will be used to pay for heating and other utility bills, and the size of the grants will be decided on a case-by-case Adj. 1. case-by-case - separate and distinct from others of the same kind; "mark the individual pages"; "on a case-by-case basis" item-by-item, individual basis after applications are received. It was not immediately known how much of the emergency funding Los Angeles could receive, HUD officials said. |
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