Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 secretary of housing and urban development is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule, [4] thus earning a salary of US$246,400, as of January 2024. [5] The current secretary of housing and urban development is Scott Turner, who was sworn in on February 5, 2025.
Workers at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development are bracing for deep staffing cuts in divisions that provide housing assistance, investigate discrimination, and compile market data ...
In the 19th century, housing development in the United States was characterized by rapid urban growth in economically productive places. [12] Throughout the 20th century, however, a number of regulations that were designed to block in-fill and direct greenfield development took hold, such as exclusionary zoning .
In July 2023, the Department of Housing and Urban Development provided communities with $85 million to reduce barriers to affordable housing, such as zoning restrictions that in some places have ...
NEWPORT – Inside the soon-to-be-renovated Florence Gray Center on Wednesday, Gov. Dan McKee and U.S. Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary Kimberly McClain shot a couple of hoops ...
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.
In 1965, major revisions to federal housing policy resulted in the creation of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The United States Congress passed and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 on August 10, 1965, which President Johnson called "the single most important breakthrough" in ...