U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Tag: HUD
A perfect affordable housing storm
Beyond the frightening amount of money the average renter pays the first of every month, the truly scary part of this situation is that...
HUD rallies smoking ban in public housing
In its proposed rule, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) would require more than 3,100 public housing agencies to go smoke-free within...
Paradise lost
San Francisco has topped the list of every national rental report since Zumper began publishing them in August 2014, and was named the most...
NMHC weighs in on HUD
After considering the Administration’s goal as well as its previous attempts to shoehorn minorities into largely homogenous communities in which they otherwise could not...
HUD: Fixing the housing mess that spurred segregation
The Obama administration wants to move America off the dime by demanding greater accountability among urban governments that use federal housing subsidies. If these...
The “folly” of fair housing
These obligations are not made out of whole cloth, but were explicitly set out in the Fair Housing Act of 1968 (FHA), which has...
Betting on the City of Angels
Developers are seeing a diverse group of residents and buyers who want to occupy amenity-rich complexes of varying types—lofts, mid-rises and high-rises—and have worry-free,...
Congress is working again
An overall uptick in activities on Capitol Hill means that work is also being done on issues important to the multifamily industry. NMHC’s political...
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...
