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HUD
Affordable housing advocates lament reports of HUD budget axe
by
Annie Baxter
Mar 9, 2017
City and state agencies that provide vouchers and housing subsidies for low-income residents could be hit hard by proposed deep cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to the Washington Post. It reports documents it obtained show $6 billion in cuts to the agency in the Trump administration’s budget outline. About $1.3 […]
Public smoking ban in public housing
by
Noel King
Jan 7, 2016
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a smoking ban.
Out of public housing, and hoping for something better
Jan 6, 2016
For Section 8 housing residents in Macon, Georgia, change is welcome.
Housing and Urban Development gets a new head
by
Jeff Tyler
Jul 28, 2014
Former mayor Julian Castro faces challenge with budget-minded Congress.
What does HUD do?
May 23, 2014
We look at the limits of HUD, and the tools HUD has to help the housing recovery.
Friday furloughs mean less services
by
Jeff Tyler
May 24, 2013
Thanks to sequestration, roughly 115,000 federal workers at the IRS, EPA, HUD and OMB get an unpaid holiday. Does anybody really notice that the offices are closed on the first day of the long Memorial Day weekend?
The beat of the sequester furloughs marches on
by
Sally Herships
and Katie Long
May 24, 2013
As a result of sequester, the IRS, HUD, the EPA and Office of Management and Budget become part of the biggest wave of government office closures since 1995.
For public good, not for profit.
Public housing looks for outside investors
by
Jim Burress
Jan 10, 2013
HUD cannot afford to fix its public housing, so the government wants to reclassify the properties as Section 8.