U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Tag: HUD
California offers energy efficiency financing for multifamily
In January, the state of California and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced an initiative that would allow PACE financing to...
Ferguson Missouri
When you leave a place, you are unwittingly marked with its memories. Such memories become framed in your perspective and there they remain, inherently...
HUD’s racial agenda
Poor people who live in government housing projects tend to find their broader neighborhoods are poor, too. Many of their neighborhoods are segregated. Their...
A smaller, gentler HUD
The changes, which include consolidating multifamily hubs nationwide and closing 16 smaller offices, affect approximately 900 of the Departments' 9,000 employees. While implementation will begin...
HUD’s race-based housing
A major goal of President Obama's second term is to use the brute force of government to reduce inequality. This played out in the struggle...
Beware of comfort dog
Attorney Tarin S. Hale calls it extortion. In October, an elderly Ohio landlord was ordered to pay $22,000 in damages for alleged housing discrimination practices...
New HUD rule on LGBT
HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said the new equal access to housing rule "says clearly and unequivocally that LGBT (gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transexual) individuals...
Gays/lesbians inch toward becoming protected class
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has introduced a new rule intended to ensure equal access to the department's core housing...
Change in the air
What is yet unclear is what will replace them. The GSEs are blamed in large part for the single-family finance bubble that led to the...
HUD gets a haircut
In line with President Barack Obama's directive to cut the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade, HUD's budget creates no new programs...
HUD and gays
HUD has unveiled a series of proposed rule changes that would prohibit lenders from using sexual orientation or gender identity as a way of...
De-fund HUD?
According to the language in the bill, once ratified, all accounts and programs for HUD would be immediately defunded. It would also transfer all...
Making public housing work
A report issued by HUD in May drove home how few housing choices our poorest families have. It found that in 2007, nearly 13...
A reasonable proposal
Much has been made of the recent proposal by the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform to modify the current, virtually unlimited mortgage...
How will the new spending bill impact affordable housing?
As I write this column, the Senate is close to considering the omnibus appropriations bill to fund HUD and other programs for FY 03/04....
