The real surprise is not that FHA might need an infusion of funds in the midst of an historic disruption in the housing market, but that it has fared so well until now compared to private bank lenders.
Christine Schanes | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living
I have found that approximately 25 percent of homeless people are children. Together, women and children make up close to 40 percent of homeless people and are the fastest growing segment.
Christine Schanes | Posted 11.02.2009 | Impact
Two videos published on YouTube - one of which has just been aired on television - show what actual HPRP funding means to people in Detroit, Michigan.
Christine Schanes | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is administering $1.5 billion of its $787 billion stimulus package through the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP).
Judy Montero | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver
A new project funded by Recovery Act funds will transform a public-housing site into a mixed-income environment.
Harry Moroz | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
Obama and Biden promise they will not spend our money badly. Government stimulus spending is presented by the administration as a necessary evil.
Shaun Donovan | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
The most successful public housing transformations have looked beyond the front gates of the new development. There is a correlation between successful housing and good schools.
Washington Independant | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
When U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced last week that first-time homebuyers soon will be permitted to turn their $8...
Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
Jack Kemp was everybody's favorite Republican/Conservative. The GOP leadership would do well to model itself after him in class, temperament and substance.
Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics
The choice of Trasvina as Assistant HUD Secretary is sure to be seen as a victory by both the progressive and Latino communities.
ProPublica | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
Today's additions to our Midnight Regulations chart include rules that affect our national parks, the approval and labeling of genetically-modified food, and public access to information.
AP | Posted 12.19.2008 | Chicago
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is warning struggling homeowners about mortgage rescue companies. Madigan on Tuesday announced that she's file...
AP | Posted 12.14.2008 | Chicago
The number of homeowners caught in the wave of foreclosures in October grew 25 percent nationally over the same month in 2007, data released Thursday ...
Harry Shearer | Posted 11.30.2008 | Green
The Kafkaesque mobius strip of bureaucratic delays and excuses in New Orleans contrasts interestingly with the long-ago Jackson Square promise by the president to cut through red tape.
Chicago Tribune | Sara Olkon | Posted 10.27.2008 | Chicago
Housing Secretary Steven Preston said Friday that Chicago would get tens of millions of dollars to help improve mixed-income public housing and to hel...
John Farr | Posted 10.25.2008 | Entertainment
Over the years, movies built on strong female characters have consistently entertained and inspired us. Instinctively, we root for these characters as we do for all non-conformists.
Christine Escobar | Posted 05.07.2008 | Home
The Democratic debate in Philadelphia was a farce. So Democratic bloggers at MOMocrats asked Obama to answer a series of real questions online. And he did.
Associated Press | Cain Burdeau | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
After violent clashes with police at City Hall, protesters vowed that the fight over a plan to demolish 218 public housing buildings for the poor was ...
Howard Glaser | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business