HUD Secretary Carson meets with West MI charities hit by COVID-19 shutdowns

by:Lynsey Mukomel

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson visited West Michigan Monday and listened to calls for continued federal coronavirus relief were echoed Monday as 

Secretary Carson's first stop was Mel Trotter Ministries in Grand Rapids, which received $1 million from the Paycheck Protection Program designed to help organizations pay workers amid the coronavirus shutdowns.

The secretary later headed to Kalamazoo, where he held a roundtable at Gospel Ministries with U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, and local leaders. Kalamazoo Gospel Ministries got about $460,000 in PPP funds.

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