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Show Indians to build iweniy-five homes on the project and it was largely through her efforts that the units were obtained. She coordinated the efforts of the Division Affairs, the Housing Development Division, HUD, and the Paiute Tribal Corporation to organize a Paiute Tribal Housing Authority, obtain a donation of land from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Latter-Day Saints, and make ap plication for the funds to HUD. The homes will be built under the Mutual-Help program which requires families to contribute labor in the construction of the homes. Title will remain with the Housing Authority, but families will be able to purchase these homes over an extended period of time. The 25 homes will be divided among four different constructions sites near the cities of Cedar City, St. George, Kanosh and Richfield. Affairs, has paid off in the receipt of 25 units of Mutual-Help housing from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Develop-ment. For years the Indians have received vague promises and have endured the studies of various state and federal bureaucrats as to the plight of their housing situation. About a year ago, however, Senator Dixie Leavitt approached the Housing Development Division and requested assistance in solving some of the housing problems for Indians in Southwestern Utah. Ms. Linford was assigned to work Bruce Parry, Director of the Utah State Division of Indian Affairs of the Department of Social Services announced that 25 single-family homes will be built for family members of five Paiute Indian Bands in Southwestern South-western Utah by the Paiute Tribal Housing Authority. A year's hard work by Lois Linford, Housing Specialist for the Housing Development Division of the Department of Community |