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 practices and promote 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 22, 2024 · Once dismissed as a “third-rail political issue,” housing is finally being prioritized as a platform issue in the 2024 presidential election.That is in no small part because the housing crisis, decades in the making, has reached a boiling point. Today the U.S. has a housing shortfall of an estimated 4 million to 7 million homes.A record-high …

Nov 7, 2024 · Prop 5—Voters rejected this measure, which, if passed, would have reduced the threshold to approve local bonds to fund affordable housing, supportive housing, or public infrastructure initiatives from two-thirds to 55 percent, and added various accountability requirements to those bonds. Legislative analysis showed that 20 percent to 50 percent more local bond measures would have passed ...

Nov 22, 2024 · [Editor’s note: Trump announced just after publication that he will nominate Scott Turner, a former NFL player and House representative for Texas from 2013 to 2017, to lead HUD.Turner currently serves as the chair of the Center for Education Opportunity at America First Policy Institute, and was the executive director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council during Trump’s ...

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.

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

Aug 7, 2024 · “Even though we had the law on our side, there was a lot of evidence that we still had to produce,” says Knight, adding that they bought a special thermometer that logs daily high and low temperatures to keep track of the indoor temperature and “had to make sure that we were keeping track of the NYSEG bills and the usage each month.”

#135 May/Jun 2004. Reagan’s Legacy: Homelessness in America. While the media looks fondly at President Reagan's accomplishments two decades ago, they all but ignore the devastating affects his policies left on the poor.