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ment that works for everybody,” Carson said.

Trump’s proposed budget would cur $6 billion from the HUD budget, including eliminating community development grants that cities rely on to build and renovate housing for lower income individuals. Carson said there will be other money for housing, such as a massive infrastructure plan Trump has suggested.

“When we are talking about revamping the infrastructure, we’re talking about housing,” said Carson, who spoke at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church next to the Habitat site.

The 9-acre Pompano Beach project is at Northwest 15th Street and Sixth Avenue. Habitat has already raised $3 million to pay for the needed roads, water and sewer lines and other infrastructure, but is looking to raise money to pay for the houses, Habitat Broward CEO Nancy Robin said.

The homes will be built over a five-year period, Robin said. Ben Carson,

The total project is estimated at more than $16 million, which is being raised through partnerships with corporations, foundations, government agencies, religious organizations and private individuals.

Case, who has been active in the Broward County Boys and Girls Club for at least 30 years, said he would love to see some kids from those programs in some of the new homes.

“You see these kids, you wonder, where do they go home to? What is the home like?” Case said. “It’s absolutely amazing what they don’t have.”

Qualified buyers of the oneand two-story homes will receive 30- or 40-year, zerointerest mortgages. To be eligible, they have to be a Broward resident for at least one year, a legal U.S. resident, and make 50 percent to 80 percent of the area median income for Broward County. The selected families must also put in 300 hours building homes or working in Habitat offices.

The Broward agency started in 1983 and has built 407 homes over the years. Millard and Linda Fuller started Habitat for Humanity in 1976 in Americus, Ga.

Last fall, about 4,000 households applied to Habitat Broward to fill 15 available slots it had, Robin said.

Carson, a neurosurgeon and popular speaker on conservative circuits, ran unsuccessfully against President Trump last year for the Republican presidential nomination.

He and his wife bought a new home in Palm Beach Gardens for $4.375 million in June. He put a home he owns in West Palm Beach at the Ibis Golf and Country Club up for sale in December for $1.2 million.