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The House Appropriations Committee recently unveiled a $44 billion budget for the departments of Transportation (DOT) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The amount for the agencies in the 2014 fiscal year is $7.7 billion less than their 2013 spending levels.
The bill is $4.4 billion below the current level of spending that went into effect after the March 1 sequester. And the House is proceeding with 2014 bills that cut below the sequester for domestic progr...
Keeping your residents cool and comfortable in the summer will do much to keep your residents happy, reduce resident complaints, and avoid HUD scrutiny. If your site's air-conditioning system breaks down this summer, some residents may even try to deduct money from their rent for the time the air-conditioning system was broken.
U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan recently announced that HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to the State of Oklahoma in addition to resources being provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other federal partners.
Recently, HUD announced a “major restructuring” of field offices that will result in the relocation of approximately 10 percent of its workforce. HUD’s Multifamily Housing Programs and Field Policy and Management Offices will consolidate workplaces beginning this fall, according to the agency, and the restructuring will take place over the next two years.
In statements made at a Federal Reserve System conference on community development, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke noted that while the U.S. economy as a whole appeared to be improving, low-income communities hit hardest by the recession continue to struggle and require multipronged strategies to recover.
New York State's Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino will be required to support a bill prohibiting income discrimination in housing that he has fought for years or risk major fines for violating a court order, after a recent decision by a federal appeals court.
As housing providers and housing professionals, you place the utmost importance on providing residents with safe accommodations. One part of your site security strategy may be to use state and local criminal trespass laws to enhance security by issuing oral or written no-trespassing warnings for a specified amount of time to any nonresident who has no legal right to be on the site’s property, or who is not an invited guest of a resident.
Recently, federal inspectors launched an investigation into contracting practices at the San Francisco Housing Authority and are looking at all contracts and bids issued by the troubled agency during the tenure of its director, Henry Alvarez.
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