TENANTS PUT HUD OFFICIALS ON HOT SEAT RESIDENTS DEMAND ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS IN PUBLIC HOUSINGDavid Abel, Globe Correspondent
WASHINGTON —The government unveiled regulations to diversify public housing Thursday, with initiatives to make housing projects more palatable to the working poor and new powers to punish local housing authorities that fail to break up dense concentrations of poverty. The Department of Housing and Urba...
HUD Secretary Ben Carson announced yesterday that federal housing agencies have extended the CARES Act eviction and foreclosure moratoriums through August 31 for tenants and homeowners with Fannie Mae, FHA, VA, USDA-insured single-family mortgages. The current moratorium was set to expire on June 30...
The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) are jointly responsible for enforcing the federal Fair Housing Act1(the “Act”), which prohibits discrimination in housing on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin,...
Belleville residents say they’ve walked into an affordable housing rip-off. Investigative reporter Chris Hayes reveals a project that’s supposed to be energy efficient, yet is costing residents triple their usual utility bills. The ‘newly remodeled’
HUD reneged on replacement housing, tenants claimElizabeth Benton
This article explores the relationship between a housing authority's discretion under Rucker to evict or terminate innocent tenants and its duty to provide reasonable accommodations for disabled tenants. The provision of the U. S. Code mandating that public housing authorities include criminal activity ...
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BHA tenants say HUD cuts hurt Boston housing developmentsSchwab, Jeremy
Sour disposition: tenants ask HUD to reconsider how it sheds unwanted property.(FrontLines)(U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)Feldman, Cassi