WASHINGTON â?? West Tennessee Legal Services received two of 108 fair-housing grants to educate the public and â?bat housing and lending discrimination,â? according to todayâ??s announcement by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
West Tennessee Legal Services, with offices in Jackson, Dyersburg, Selmer and Huntingdon, serves Madison, Decatur, Gibson, Hardeman, Haywood, Henderson, Crockett, Dyer, Lake, Obion, Benton. Carroll, Henry, Weakley, Chester, McNairy and Hardin counties.
Grants totaling $40.8 million announced today went to 36 states and the District of Columbia. In addition to the $1.2 million going to West Tennessee Legal Services, the Nashville-based Tennessee Fair Housing Council will receive $275,000 and the Fair Housing Center of the Gulf Coast Region of Mississippi will receive $325,000.
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