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 …

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 4, 2024 · TUF has its roots in a previous campaign, Homes Guarantee, which was launched in 2017 as an arm of the multi-issue organizing group People’s Action.That campaign set its sights on FHFA after it found that it had the ability to enshrine and enforce increased tenant protections, through its regulatory capacities.

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

Nov 11, 2024 · Under the Lens. Street Blocks to Alphabet Blocks: The Housing-Education Connection. In this Under the Lens series, we explore the ways the educational justice and housing justice movements overlap, why it’s challenging for these two spheres to work together, and much more.

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 …

Jul 26, 2024 · Despite the significant need for medical respite programs across the country, their future growth faces significant barriers. There is a lack of dedicated funding sources for these programs in many states, which can hinder the ability of …

Oct 6, 2022 · Freedomland: Co-op City and the Story of New York, by Oberlin College history professor Annemarie Sammartino, traces the history of Co-op City from its initial planning stages in the mid 1960s through the early 1990s, including a major rent strike, the assertion of community control, race and class dynamics, and the ways the development reflected what was …

Nov 17, 2021 · NIMBY stands for “Not in My Back Yard.” In the housing world it’s used to describe people, typically existing residents (especially homeowners), who oppose new housing development near their homes—particularly denser or more affordable housing.