Showing posts with label buyout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buyout. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Housing Authority increases offer to buy back contaminated homes in San Antonio Texas

July 11, 2008 - Homeowners in the Mirasol Homes neighborhood are receiving increased offers from the San Antonio Housing Authority to buy back their homes.

SAHA has already spent about $5.5 million to decontaminate and repair more than 400 homes built by K-B Homes, but the authority's Board of Commissioners voted Thursday evening to increase the city's buyback offer to $30,000 per home, about $5,000 more than its previous offers.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Picher tornado victims given priority in EPA buyout

May 21, 2008 - PICHER, Okla. — The addition of $8 million from the Environmental Protection Agency for the government buyout of Picher should be enough to relocate all of the dozens of residents whose homes were destroyed in the May 10 tornado, officials said Wednesday.

U.S. Sen. James Inhofe said in a statement Tuesday, “I have been assured by Governor (Brad) Henry and the buyout trust (Lead Impacted Communities Relocation Assistance Trust) that these tornado victims will be moved to the top of the buyout list.”

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