Sep 26, 2024 · Reported Article HUD. How Project 2025 Would Dismantle HUD. The Heritage Foundation’s “conservative playbook” isn’t new, but critics say the latest version’s policies and platforms are more discriminatory and dangerous than in the past.

Dec 23, 2024 · Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, or AFFH, is a statutory requirement of the Fair Housing Act. It means that recipients of HUD funding (and any other federal funding that might affect fair housing, such as infrastructure development) must take an extra step beyond nondiscrimination: they must actively work to reverse the results of past discriminatory housing practices and promote housing ...

Jan 8, 2025 · Reported Article HUD. Trump’s Pick to Lead HUD Has Opposed Efforts to Aid the Poor. As HUD secretary, Scott Turner would oversee billions in housing aid, but as a Texas state legislator he voted against protections for poor tenants and has called government assistance “one of the most destructive things for the family,” according to a recent ProPublica report.

Oct 22, 2024 · Once dismissed as a “third-rail political issue,” housing is finally being prioritized as a platform issue in the 2024 presidential election.That is in no small part because the housing crisis, decades in the making, has reached a boiling point. Today the U.S. has a housing shortfall of an estimated 4 million to 7 million homes.A record-high …

Oct 25, 2024 · About 350,000 of those units are part of HSB Riksförbund and 200,000 are part of Riksbyggen.HSB and Riksbyggen are two different national cooperative organizations that develop new co-ops and convert existing public and private multifamily units into …

Mar 1, 2024 · A year after the count began, in 2008, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development launched the HUD-VA Supportive Housing program, which has provided housing vouchers and supportive services for thousands of homeless veterans every year since its establishment.. The scale of resources for housing homeless veterans is far closer to the actual need when compared to any other subgroup of ...

Aug 7, 2024 · “Even though we had the law on our side, there was a lot of evidence that we still had to produce,” says Knight, adding that they bought a special thermometer that logs daily high and low temperatures to keep track of the indoor temperature and “had to make sure that we were keeping track of the NYSEG bills and the usage each month.”

Jan 31, 2025 · Shelterforce covers topics from community planning to racial equity, housing affordability to homeownership, and the future of community development.

Nov 7, 2024 · Prop 5—Voters rejected this measure, which, if passed, would have reduced the threshold to approve local bonds to fund affordable housing, supportive housing, or public infrastructure initiatives from two-thirds to 55 percent, and added various accountability requirements to those bonds. Legislative analysis showed that 20 percent to 50 percent more local bond measures would have passed ...

Nov 22, 2024 · [Editor’s note: Trump announced just after publication that he will nominate Scott Turner, a former NFL player and House representative for Texas from 2013 to 2017, to lead HUD.Turner currently serves as the chair of the Center for Education Opportunity at America First Policy Institute, and was the executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council during Trump’s ...