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Governor Albert Bryan Jr. welcomes HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge to the U.S. Virgin Islands.<\/h6>\nGovernor Bryan Welcomes HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge to USVI<\/h1>\nBiden Administration Cabinet member tours housing projects on St. Thomas and holds a meeting in person and virtually with Territory\u2019s nonprofits to offer assistance with housing programs and initiatives<\/em><\/h6>\n <\/p>\n
U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS \u2014 Governor Albert Bryan Jr. welcomed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge to the U.S. Virgin Islands on Friday, April 1, during her visit that follows on the heels of Governor Bryan\u2019s meeting with her in Washington, D.C., in February.<\/p>\n
Secretary Fudge toured the Donoe affordable housing project underway on St. Thomas and the Celestino White Sr. Senior Citizens Residence in Sugar Estate, then hosted an in-person and virtual meeting with representatives from the Territory\u2019s nonprofits and offered HUD\u2019s assistance with their housing programs and initiatives.<\/p>\n
Governor Bryan, who is in Washington, D.C., for official meetings, appeared virtually to open the meeting and welcome Secretary Fudge to the USVI, thanking her for her efforts at the highest level of the federal government on behalf of the Territory.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really appreciate the attention the Virgin Islands has gotten on this matter and hope that while your there you\u2019re staying to see some of the issues that confront us on a daily basis in trying to get back to where we were four or five years ago,\u201d Governor Bryan said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m going to say that what we\u2019re experiencing at this time is not a recovery. It\u2019s a total transformation of the Virgin Islands, and I hope you\u2019ll have an opportunity to see our Magens Bay development to see the types of development that we\u2019re doing and the kind of housing that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Secretary Fudge opened the meeting with the nonprofits by saying that her next visit to the Territory will be to St. Croix and telling them that the president is very concerned about the Virgin Islands, as is she.<\/p>\n
The Secretary spoke of a sense of urgency to spending the federal funding available to the U.S. Virgin Islands to accomplish the housing projects and recovery initiatives throughout the Territory, and she offered any necessary assistance to the Government of the Virgin Islands and the local nonprofit community at the highest levels of HUD.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis administration has put more dollars into states and territories than any president in history, and we need you to succeed\u2026 but we can\u2019t wait forever,\u201d Secretary Fudge said. \u201cOne of the reasons I am here is to try to find a way to be helpful so that your recovery is stronger and more equitable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Secretary Fudge warned that Congress has only a finite amount of money and if they see little progress they will take funds and use them elsewhere, and she said the Territory needs to use plentiful federal funding available through in a way that is strategic and smart on things that are going to be resilient and long-lasting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I am asking is for you to work with some urgency, and we want to help you do it,\u201d Secretary Fudge said. \u201cIn the president\u2019s budget that was released Monday, he\u2019s asking for 200,000 vouchers. But it doesn\u2019t make any difference how many vouchers we have if there\u2019s no place for people to live. So, again, we need to move with some urgency.\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
Interim V.I. Housing Finance Authority Executive Director Dayna Clendinen and V.I. Housing Authority Executive Director Robert Graham hosted Secretary Fudge and her staff and escorted them on walking tours of the affordable housing project underway in Estate Done that is part of the housing initiatives under construction to replace the Tutu Hi-Rise and Ras Valley housing communities that were destroyed by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlong with these funding opportunities, I was excited in our discussion to focus on other areas \u2013 such as providing technical assistance \u2013 in which we can help our stakeholders be successful,\u201d Interim Director Clendinen said. \u201cIn truth, charitable non-profits and governments are natural partners, as we serve the same constituents within the community. Therefore, the challenges of one are challenges for all, and working together allows us all to leverage our collective resources to serve our community even better.\u00bb<\/p>\n
Governor Bryan\u2019s Chief of Staff Karl Knight participated in the meeting with the nonprofits on the Governor\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n
Staff members traveling with Secretary Fudge included Deputy Assistant Secretary of HUD Alan Williams, HUD\u2019s Disaster Recovery and Planning Specialist for the Virgin Islands Jessie Huddleston and Efrain Maldonado, director of HUD\u2019s Puerto Rico\/U.S. Virgin Islands Field Office.<\/p>\n
The local nonprofit organizations that participated in-person and virtually from St. Croix included:
\n\u2022 Community First of St Croix
\n\u2022 St. Croix Long Term Recovery Group
\n\u2022 Lutheran Social Services of the Virgin Islands
\n\u2022 Love City Strong
\n\u2022 Women’s Coalition of St Croix
\n\u2022 Methodist Training Outreach Center
\n\u2022 St. Croix Foundation for Community Development
\n\u2022 Catholic Charities of the Virgin Islands
\n\u2022 Island Green Living Association-St. John
\n\u2022 St. John Community Foundation
\n\u2022 Continuum of Care, Inc., St. Croix
\n\u2022 Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands
\n\u2022 Legal Services of the Virgin Islands<\/p>\n
The Bryan-Roach Administration is investing in the Territory\u2019s people, infrastructure and future through transparency, stabilizing the economy, restoring trust in the government and ensuring that recovery projects are completed as quickly as possible. Visit transparency.vi.gov<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 3, 2022 Governor Albert Bryan Jr. welcomes HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge to the U.S. Virgin Islands. Governor Bryan Welcomes HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge to USVI Biden Administration Cabinet member tours housing projects on St. Thomas and holds a meeting in person and virtually with Territory\u2019s nonprofits to offer assistance with housing programs and initiatives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"project_id":"","notification":"","due_date":"","status":"","show_rebuild":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-viodr-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18767,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions\/18767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Biden Administration Cabinet member tours housing projects on St. Thomas and holds a meeting in person and virtually with Territory\u2019s nonprofits to offer assistance with housing programs and initiatives<\/em><\/h6>\n <\/p>\n
U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS \u2014 Governor Albert Bryan Jr. welcomed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge to the U.S. Virgin Islands on Friday, April 1, during her visit that follows on the heels of Governor Bryan\u2019s meeting with her in Washington, D.C., in February.<\/p>\n
Secretary Fudge toured the Donoe affordable housing project underway on St. Thomas and the Celestino White Sr. Senior Citizens Residence in Sugar Estate, then hosted an in-person and virtual meeting with representatives from the Territory\u2019s nonprofits and offered HUD\u2019s assistance with their housing programs and initiatives.<\/p>\n
Governor Bryan, who is in Washington, D.C., for official meetings, appeared virtually to open the meeting and welcome Secretary Fudge to the USVI, thanking her for her efforts at the highest level of the federal government on behalf of the Territory.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really appreciate the attention the Virgin Islands has gotten on this matter and hope that while your there you\u2019re staying to see some of the issues that confront us on a daily basis in trying to get back to where we were four or five years ago,\u201d Governor Bryan said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m going to say that what we\u2019re experiencing at this time is not a recovery. It\u2019s a total transformation of the Virgin Islands, and I hope you\u2019ll have an opportunity to see our Magens Bay development to see the types of development that we\u2019re doing and the kind of housing that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n
Secretary Fudge opened the meeting with the nonprofits by saying that her next visit to the Territory will be to St. Croix and telling them that the president is very concerned about the Virgin Islands, as is she.<\/p>\n
The Secretary spoke of a sense of urgency to spending the federal funding available to the U.S. Virgin Islands to accomplish the housing projects and recovery initiatives throughout the Territory, and she offered any necessary assistance to the Government of the Virgin Islands and the local nonprofit community at the highest levels of HUD.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis administration has put more dollars into states and territories than any president in history, and we need you to succeed\u2026 but we can\u2019t wait forever,\u201d Secretary Fudge said. \u201cOne of the reasons I am here is to try to find a way to be helpful so that your recovery is stronger and more equitable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Secretary Fudge warned that Congress has only a finite amount of money and if they see little progress they will take funds and use them elsewhere, and she said the Territory needs to use plentiful federal funding available through in a way that is strategic and smart on things that are going to be resilient and long-lasting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I am asking is for you to work with some urgency, and we want to help you do it,\u201d Secretary Fudge said. \u201cIn the president\u2019s budget that was released Monday, he\u2019s asking for 200,000 vouchers. But it doesn\u2019t make any difference how many vouchers we have if there\u2019s no place for people to live. So, again, we need to move with some urgency.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Interim V.I. Housing Finance Authority Executive Director Dayna Clendinen and V.I. Housing Authority Executive Director Robert Graham hosted Secretary Fudge and her staff and escorted them on walking tours of the affordable housing project underway in Estate Done that is part of the housing initiatives under construction to replace the Tutu Hi-Rise and Ras Valley housing communities that were destroyed by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlong with these funding opportunities, I was excited in our discussion to focus on other areas \u2013 such as providing technical assistance \u2013 in which we can help our stakeholders be successful,\u201d Interim Director Clendinen said. \u201cIn truth, charitable non-profits and governments are natural partners, as we serve the same constituents within the community. Therefore, the challenges of one are challenges for all, and working together allows us all to leverage our collective resources to serve our community even better.\u00bb<\/p>\n
Governor Bryan\u2019s Chief of Staff Karl Knight participated in the meeting with the nonprofits on the Governor\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n
Staff members traveling with Secretary Fudge included Deputy Assistant Secretary of HUD Alan Williams, HUD\u2019s Disaster Recovery and Planning Specialist for the Virgin Islands Jessie Huddleston and Efrain Maldonado, director of HUD\u2019s Puerto Rico\/U.S. Virgin Islands Field Office.<\/p>\n
The local nonprofit organizations that participated in-person and virtually from St. Croix included:
\n\u2022 Community First of St Croix
\n\u2022 St. Croix Long Term Recovery Group
\n\u2022 Lutheran Social Services of the Virgin Islands
\n\u2022 Love City Strong
\n\u2022 Women’s Coalition of St Croix
\n\u2022 Methodist Training Outreach Center
\n\u2022 St. Croix Foundation for Community Development
\n\u2022 Catholic Charities of the Virgin Islands
\n\u2022 Island Green Living Association-St. John
\n\u2022 St. John Community Foundation
\n\u2022 Continuum of Care, Inc., St. Croix
\n\u2022 Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands
\n\u2022 Legal Services of the Virgin Islands<\/p>\n
The Bryan-Roach Administration is investing in the Territory\u2019s people, infrastructure and future through transparency, stabilizing the economy, restoring trust in the government and ensuring that recovery projects are completed as quickly as possible. Visit transparency.vi.gov<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 3, 2022 Governor Albert Bryan Jr. welcomes HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge to the U.S. Virgin Islands. Governor Bryan Welcomes HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge to USVI Biden Administration Cabinet member tours housing projects on St. Thomas and holds a meeting in person and virtually with Territory\u2019s nonprofits to offer assistance with housing programs and initiatives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"project_id":"","notification":"","due_date":"","status":"","show_rebuild":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-viodr-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18767,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions\/18767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Secretary Fudge opened the meeting with the nonprofits by saying that her next visit to the Territory will be to St. Croix and telling them that the president is very concerned about the Virgin Islands, as is she.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\u2022 Community First of St Croix
\n\u2022 St. Croix Long Term Recovery Group
\n\u2022 Lutheran Social Services of the Virgin Islands
\n\u2022 Love City Strong
\n\u2022 Women’s Coalition of St Croix
\n\u2022 Methodist Training Outreach Center
\n\u2022 St. Croix Foundation for Community Development
\n\u2022 Catholic Charities of the Virgin Islands
\n\u2022 Island Green Living Association-St. John
\n\u2022 St. John Community Foundation
\n\u2022 Continuum of Care, Inc., St. Croix
\n\u2022 Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands
\n\u2022 Legal Services of the Virgin Islands<\/p>\n
April 3, 2022 Governor Albert Bryan Jr. welcomes HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge to the U.S. Virgin Islands. Governor Bryan Welcomes HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge to USVI Biden Administration Cabinet member tours housing projects on St. Thomas and holds a meeting in person and virtually with Territory\u2019s nonprofits to offer assistance with housing programs and initiatives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"project_id":"","notification":"","due_date":"","status":"","show_rebuild":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-viodr-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18767,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions\/18767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}