HUD recently unveiled its fiscal year 2012 budget proposal. Titled “Creating Strong, Sustainable, Inclusive Communities and Quality Affordable Homes,” the budget aims to lead the country out of the economic crisis, in part, by helping responsible families at risk of losing their...
HUD has proposed new regulations to ensure that its housing programs are open to all eligible persons, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Recent studies suggest that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals and families do not have equal access to housing. For...
HUD recently launched a Web site that consolidates a wide variety of economic and housing market data at the regional, state, metropolitan area, and county levels. The Web site draws on data from the Census Bureau, Labor Department, state and local governments, housing industry sources, as well...
Residents who receive temporary employment payments by the U.S. Census Bureau will be allowed to exclude that income through Sept. 30, 2011, according to HUD Notice PIH-2010-38 (HA). The notice applies to residents of public housing, Section 8 moderate rehabilitation, Housing Choice Voucher, and...
To encourage owners of assisted sites to implement smoke-free housing policies, HUD recently posted a notice (H 2010-21) that sets the requirements for such policies. The notice applies only to those sites that choose to set such policies.
Whether owners choose to set policies that allow...
HUD has released its first report on the state of fair housing in America. HUD's Fiscal Year 2009 annual State of Fair Housing Report highlights the agency's progress in enforcing the Fair Housing Act (FHA), identifies challenges that remain, and demonstrates its commitment to end...
HUD is charging the owner of a Wisconsin apartment complex and its management company with discrimination for denying an accessible parking space to a resident who has difficulty walking and has braces on both legs.
Nearly 14 years after the Lead Disclosure Rule was put into place, HUD is still encountering site owners and managers who are violating the rule. Just recently, HUD announced settlements with two San Antonio owners for failing to warn their residents that their homes may contain potentially...
HUD has charged a nonprofit community service agency in Miami with violating the Fair Housing Act by refusing to make one of its units accessible for a disabled veteran. The charges were filed against the Urban League Housing Corporation of Greater Miami, its president, and a management company...
HUD is charging two apartment building owners in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., with discriminating against a Vietnam-era veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder by denying his request to have a therapeutic service dog in his unit. HUD also contends that the owners retaliated against the...
HUD is launching a national study on discrimination in the sale or rental of housing against members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) community. Sexual orientation and gender identity is not currently protected under federal fair housing law, but HUD is exploring a rule to...
