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HUD recently announced that it’s publishing a final rule formalizing legal standards under the Fair Housing Act for sexual and other forms of harassment in housing. In addition, HUD is issuing Fair Housing Act guidance on local “nuisance ordinances” that may lead to housing discrimination against survivors of domestic violence and other persons in need of emergency services.

The new fiscal year for the U.S. government begins on Oct. 1, and Congress has so far failed to enact any of the 12 federal spending bills for FY 2017, including those that fund affordable housing and community development.

Scholars from the Urban Institute are looking at the various ways in which public housing authorities (PHAs) and school districts are working together to better serve low-income children living in HUD-assisted housing. The analysis is intended to offer evidence-based ideas for programs and policies public housing agencies can test through HUD’s Moving to Work Demonstration.

Urban Institute and National Housing Conference have created an interactive webpage that illustrates the need for subsidy when charging affordable rents to low-income families. The tool highlights the gap between the cost of constructing and maintaini...

To protect children and families from the hazards of lead-based paint and from other home health and safety hazards, HUD recently awarded more than $52.6 million in Lead Based Paint Hazard Control grants to 23 local and state government agencies.

HUD recently posted Notice CPD-16-14, which provides guidance for meeting environmental requirements when national Housing Trust Fund (HTF) money is used for new construction and rehabilitation. The HTF is a new affordable housing production program that will complement existing federal, state and local efforts to increase and preserve the supply of decent, safe, and sanitary affordable housing for extremely low- and very low-income ho...

On July 1, the Democratic Party released its draft platform, a document that went before the full platform committee on July 8, before being debated and finalized at the Democratic Party Convention in Philadelphia at the end of July. 

HUD recently announced $24 million in grants to assist more than 1,200 low-income persons living with HIV/AIDS and their families annually. These grants provide a combination of housing assistance and supportive services for this vulnerable population. The funding is offered through HUD’s Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS Program (HOPWA) and will renew HUD’s support of 25 local programs.

HUD recently proposed a new formula for determining the amount of funding that a public housing agency (PHA) receives to administer the Housing Choice Vvoucher program.

HUD recently published a notice in the Federal Register entitled, “Using Small Area Fair Market Rents in Housing Choice Voucher Program Instead of the Current 50th Percentile FMRs.” HUD is proposing to use Small Area Fair Market Rents (FMRs) in place of the current 50th percentile rent to address high levels of voucher concentration. HUD’s goal in pursuing this rulemaking is to provide Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) ten...