The settlement, which was announced on Nov. 15, calls for Mississippi to allocate $132 million in federal disaster money to lower-income south Mississippi residents whose homes were damaged by wind, as opposed to flooding.
In December 2008, the Mississippi State Conference NAACP, the Gulf Coast Fair Housing Center and four individual plaintiffs sued HUD and its former secretary, Steven Preston, in federal court in the District of Columbia.
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