The program will provide tenant-based rental assistance, short-term rent, mortgage and utility assistance as well as other supportive services to 212 households each year.

More than 50 projects to improve housing and communities in Indianapolis will receive federal funds.

Many initiatives to help people experiencing homelessness in Indianapolis will receive more than $6.3 million in federal funding.

Demolition began Monday afternoon on East Chicago's West Calumet Housing Complex, but the U.S.S. Lead Superfund site still leaves former residents concerned for their future.

The mayor says a new neighborhood will be selected for the program every year, through a data-driven and competitive process.

Many East Chicago residents are concerned demolition will spread contaminated dust.

The money must be used within a year - though HUD hasn't officially approved the city's controversial demolition plan for the West Calumet Housing Complex.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development held a hearing Monday about a plan to demolish the lead-contaminated West Calumet Housing Complex.

The newly announced $18 million for over 100 Indiana programs is $2 million more than the state received last year, and a small part of the almost $2 billion sent out nationwide.

The new policy requires public housing properties to go smoke-free. Thirty properties in Indiana will be affected.