Housing and Urban Development

Alignment Quiz for African Leaders: A note From the African World Economic Forum

Daniel Isenberg | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Addis Ababa, Financial System, Capitalism, Housing and Urban Development, World Economic Forum, World News
Daniel Isenberg

Just imagine how fast financial institutions, health care delivery, and public education would improve if leaders forced themselves to have their and their families' interests completely aligned with those of their constituents as well.

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Janell Ross

U.S. Bank Faces Federal Investigation

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: U.S. Bank, Bv-Politics, Hud, u.s. Bancorp, Housing Discrimination, Fair Housing Act, Housing and Urban Development, Business News

U.S. Bank on Tuesday joined the ranks of large financial firms facing discrimination charges for the way it maintains foreclosed homes in mostly black...

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Fed Up With Housing Policy

Paul Boden | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Section 8, Congress, Social Justice, Poverty, Public Housing, Budget Cuts, Budget, President Obama, Progressives, Western Regional Advocacy Project, Housing Crisis, Affordable Housing, Foreclosure Crisis, Human Rights, Homelessness, Federal Budget Deficit, Community Organizing, Social Movements, Housing and Urban Development, Section 8 Housing Vouchers, Politics News
Paul Boden

We can't put our hope in politicians and organizations that attempt to smooth out the edges of terrible legislation while people lose their homes and programs are gutted. In communities across the country, groups are joining hands to build a movement for the human right to housing.

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Janell Ross

Feds Launch Probe Of Wells Fargo Housing Practices

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Latino Home Buyers, Communities of Color, Wells Fargo, Black Home Buyers, Hud, Discrimination, Foreclosure, Housing Discrimination, Justice Department, Civil Rights Violations, Housing and Urban Development, Civil Rights, Business News

Wells Fargo & Co., the nation's largest mortgage lender, is facing the second of at least two federal probes into how it treats minority borrowers and...

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Matt Sledge

Public Housing Demolition Lowered Crime, But Not For Everyone

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Section 8, Chicago Housing Authority, Henry Horner Homes, Public Housing, Ceasefire Illinois, Hope-Vi, Cabrini Green, Chicago Housing Authority Plan for Transformation, Housing and Urban Development, Chicago News

Chicago's decade-long effort to move people out of its infamous public housing towers and into low-rise neighborhoods has long produced divided reacti...

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Did America's 10-Year Plan To End Homelessness Work?

Joel John Roberts | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: 100khomes, Poverty, Ten-Year-Plan-to-End-Homelessness, Homelessness, Naeh, Third World America, Interagency Council on Homelessness, United Way, Los Angeles, Housing and Urban Development, Home News
Joel John Roberts

So many plans and so many end-dates, both past and future. Did chronic homelessness in America end in 2012? No. Was the ten year plan to end homelessness a failure? No.

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The 21st Century Urban Disaster: How Do We Respond?

David Weiss | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Usaid, Natural Disasters, Housing and Urban Development, Humanitarian Aid, Haiti, Impact News
David Weiss

Regrettably, disasters are inevitable. But with continued investment in disaster risk reduction activities, municipal governments can mitigate the impact of those disasters when they do occur.

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Alexander Eichler

Why It's A Terrible Time To Be A Low-Income Renter

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Housing Prices, Housing Market, Foreclosure Crisis, Poverty, Apartments, Homeowners, Low Income Families, Shaun Donovan, Affordable Housing, Low Income Renters, Video, Rental Market, Homeownership, Low-Income Housing, Low Income, Renters, Housing and Urban Development, Business News

Everyone knows the economy has been rough on homeowners lately. But for people who rent -- especially for people who rent and don't make very much mon...

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Bing And City Council At Odds Over Who Fate Of Department Of Human Services

Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Detroit Department of Human Services, Detroit Head Start Program, Detroit Corruption, Dave Bing, Michigan Department of Human Services, Detroit Fiscal Crisis, Hud, Detroit Mayor Bing, Head Start, Detroit City Council, Housing and Urban Development, Detroit Block Grants, Video, Detroit News

The Detroit Department of Human Services faces an uncertain future as Mayor Dave Bing's administration and state and federal authorities plan to disso...

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How Four Women Revived a Derelict Mississippi Town

The New York Times | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Restoration, Southern Towns, Water Valley, Mississippi, Renovation, Housing and Urban Development, Revitalizing, Women News

OVER lunch at the B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery here one day last month - pear zucchini soup and cornbread madeleines - the women of Water Valley were ...

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Ben Hallman

Housing Secretary To Underwater Americans: There's Help For You

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Housing Market, Mortgage, Housing, Robosigning, Foreclosure, Underwater Homeowners, Shaun Donovan, Housing and Urban Development, Business News

For every borrower in immediate danger of losing a home to foreclosure, there are at least two more like Renita "Kay" Butler, who is current on her lo...

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Ben Hallman

This Is Not A Misprint: Good News For Some Homeowners With Bank of America Loans

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Ira Rheingold, Shaun Donovan Hud, Mortgage Settlement, Bank of America, Hud, Bank of America Home Loans, Bank of America Mortgages, Shaun Donovan, Housing and Urban Development, Bank of America Foreclosures, Foreclosure Settlement, Business News

For once, now might be a good time to have a Bank of America home loan. Under the $25 billion foreclosure settlement signed last month, Bank of Ame...

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Holding Banks Accountable

Shaun Donovan | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Justice Department, Housing, Housing and Urban Development, Politics News
Shaun Donovan

By ensuring that banks and mortgage servicers fulfill their essential obligations, the administration's mortgage settlement proves that we can make real progress, and achieve extraordinary results, when we work together.

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Saki Knafo

They Live In Motels And On Friends' Couches, But Are These Kids Homeless?

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Homeless Children, Doe, Homeless Families, Steve Berg, Family Homelessness, How Many Children Are Homeless, How Many Kids Are Homeless, Hr 32, National Coalition to End Homelessness, Homeless Kids, The Department of Eduction, Homelessness, Children and Poverty, How Many Homeless Children Are There, How Many Families Are Homeless, Congress Homeless Kid, Hud, Motel Homelessness, Poor Kids, Bill h.r. 32, Diane Nilan, Housing and Urban Development, Education News

Homeless kids have the right to an education. That's the basic rationale behind the McKinney-Vento Act of 1987, a law meant to ensure that homeless ki...

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Janell Ross

Federal Budget Cuts Imperil Social Services In Florida City

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Community Development Block Grants, Miami Beach, Hialeah, Poor Families, Federal Budget Cuts, Hialeah Florida, Social Services, Cdbg, City Budgets, Low Income, Housing and Urban Development, Business News

In the three decades that Fred Marinelli has spent leafing though grant applications from nonprofit groups in Hialeah, Fla., assessing their performan...

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Donors Step Up For Evicted 101-Year-Old Woman

Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Texana Hollis, Video, Texana Hollis Evicted, Pollian Cheeks, Texana Hollis Donations, Detroit, 101 Year Old Evicted, Michigan, Michigan Foreclosures, Housing and Urban Development, Impact News

Though a 101-year-old evicted Detroit woman has been taken in by a good Samaritan, she still needs more help to get by. After the U.S. Department o...

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BofA Allegedly Modified Home Loans To Keep Complainers Quiet

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Loan Modifications, Mortgage Modification, Countrywide Financial, Bank of America, Mortgage Crisis, Overdraft Fees, Bank of America Countrywide, Bofa, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Arizona, Housing and Urban Development, Video, Business News

In an attempt to clean up its battered image, Bank of America allegedly provided mortgage assistance to customers willing to drop complaints about the...

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Discrimination Lawsuit Holds Subprime Lenders Accountable

Shaun Donovan | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Housing Market, Housing, Discrimination, Department of Justice, Justice, Racial Discrimination, Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Countrywide 335 Million, Countrywide Financial, Countrywide Mortgage Settlement, Countrywide Settlement, Politics News
Shaun Donovan

African-American and Latino families have been hit especially hard by economic recession. Most outrageously, these communities were also targets of many of the practices that helped cause it -- including discrimination, predatory lending and fraud.

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Number Of Homeless Veterans Reportedly Declined Last Year

AP | By KEVIN FREKING | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Voucher Program, Veterans Affairs, Homeless Veterans, Homelessness, Eric Shinseki, Shaun Donovan, Housing and Urban Development, Impact News

WASHINGTON -- Homelessness among the nation's veterans declined by about 12 percent during a one-year period ending January 2011, the Obama administra...

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Poor Tenants Organizing to Occupy Homes Legally or Illegally

Mira Luna | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Occupy San Francisco, Housing Crisis, Foreclosures. Home Foreclosures, Housing and Urban Development, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, Offthebus, Foreclosures, Politics News
Mira Luna

A group of low-income San Franciscans has come up with a positive, long term solution to the housing crisis that is causing millions of Americans to be evicted and some to embrace the "Occupy Homes" movement: buy the buildings.

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HUD Gives Colorado Millions

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Colorado Public Housing, Denver News, Housing Projects, Denver Colorado, Colorado News, Public Housing Units, Housing and Urban Development, Denver Housing Authority, Denver Public Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Denver News

Colorado was awarded $12.1 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for improvements to public housing units Tuesday, t...

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Obama Launches Community-Based Urban Program To Spark Growth

Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Bing West, Hilda Solis, New Orlenans, Cleveland, Fresno, Detroit, Obama Administration, Hud, Urban America, Economic Growth, Mephis, Shaun Donovan, Housing and Urban Development, Pilot Program, Business News

DETROIT -- The Obama administration is launching a pilot program designed to spark economic growth in urban America by partnering federal officials wi...

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Mortgage Counseling: HUD Should Do More Than "Incorporate by Reference"

Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Homebuyer Counseling, Mortgage Crisis, Hud, Mortgage Education, Mortgage Counseling, Housing and Urban Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Homebuyer Education, Mortgage Regulation, Housing Crisis, Politics News
Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has taken some steps toward improving housing counseling by indicating that new rules may be on the horizon. But to really make a difference, HUD must tailor its rules to maximize the benefits of counseling.

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Matt Sledge

U.S. Mayors Pass Resolution To Bring 'War Dollars' Home

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Afghanistan, Budget, Iraq, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Housing and Urban Development, Afghanistan War, Mayors, Politics News

BALTIMORE -- The U.S. Conference of Mayors approved a resolution on Monday calling for an accelerated end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That...

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Is Your Homeless Tally Half Full or Half Empty?

Joel John Roberts | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Homelessness, Third World America, Economy, Homeless Counts, Baghdad Bob, San Francisco, New York City, Housing and Urban Development, Impact News
Joel John Roberts

So this past January, in the quiet of the night, volunteers spanned across cities to count homeless persons. The results are being announced now.

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