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Took office Left office President(s) 1: Robert C. Weaver: New York: January 18, 1966 December 18, 1968 Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969) 2: Robert Wood: Massachusetts: January 7, 1969 January 20, 1969 3: George W. Romney: Michigan: January 22, 1969 January 20, 1973 Richard Nixon (1969–1974) 4: James Lynn: Ohio: February 2, 1973 February 5, 1975 ...
HUD enforces Title II when it relates to state and local public housing, housing assistance and housing referrals. Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 : The Architectural Barriers Act requires that buildings and facilities designed, constructed, altered, or leased with certain federal funds after September 1969 must be accessible to and usable ...
The idea of a department of Urban Affairs was proposed in a 1957 report to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, led by New York governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. [3] The idea of a department of Housing and Urban Affairs was taken up by President John F. Kennedy, with Pennsylvania Senator and Kennedy ally Joseph S. Clark Jr. listing it as one of the top seven legislative priorities for the ...
The Home Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) – This HUD program provides grants to state and local governments that can be used to create affordable housing options for low-income households ...
Permanent, federally funded housing came into being in the United States as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Title II, Section 202 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, passed June 16, 1933, directed the Public Works Administration (PWA) to develop a program for the "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and slum ...
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA), also known as the Office of Housing within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), is a United States government agency founded by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, established in part by the National Housing Act of 1934.
The Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Its mission is to ensure safe, decent, and affordable housing , create opportunities for residents' self-sufficiency and economic independence, and assure the fiscal integrity of all program participants.
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) is a provision of the 1968 federal Fair Housing Act [1] signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.The law requires that "All executive departments and agencies shall administer their programs and activities relating to housing and urban development (including any Federal agency having regulatory or supervisory authority over financial ...