The state House budget, which was approved Wednesday, could use nearly $23 million from a blockbuster legal settlement with the nation’s largest mortgage servicers to plug budget gaps, joining dozens of states in redirecting money intended to help struggling homeowners.

The intersection at Transou and Balsom roads in Pfafftown was always dangerous, nearby residents say. But in the seven years since Reagan High School opened at that intersection, it has become, in the words of one former crossing guard, “definitely the spot in Pfafftown that everyone’s afraid of.”