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Albany Housing Authority hopeful for grants

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The Albany Housing Authority is happy with the progress of their transformation plan for the McIntosh neighborhood.

They got a planning grant and are now waiting to see if they'll get a other federal grants that would bring tens of millions of dollars to transform the entire neighborhood. 

It would bring improvements to education, safety, and the look of the area. Right now, they are waiting for a safety grant for nearly a million dollars.

"Making that particular neighborhood safer so it can be a springboard to hopefully getting this choice neighborhoods grant," said Albany Housing Authority executive director Dan McCarthy. "We will already have a couple of things in place, particularly the public safety part." 

McCarthy says getting smaller grants make it more likely they'll will the major multi-million dollar grant needed to perform the neighborhood transformation.

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