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  2. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

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    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 ...

  3. Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Trump HUD Secretary Scott Turner scraps housing ‘equal access ...

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    The orders are meant to help preserve single-sex bathrooms, locker rooms and sports teams. The first Trump administration had scrapped the Obama rule in order to allow recipients of HUD funds to ...

  5. United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

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    The United States secretary of housing and urban development (or HUD secretary) is the head of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, a member of the president's Cabinet, and thirteenth in the presidential line of succession.

  6. Federal Housing Administration - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Rental Assistance Demonstration - Wikipedia

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    The Rental Assistance Demonstration is a federal housing program that was enacted as part of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012, [1] and is administered by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD). Broadly, the purpose of the Rental Assistance Demonstration (or RAD) is to provide a set of tools to ...

  8. Housing discrimination in the United States - Wikipedia

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    There have been calls for HUD to use disparate impact as a measure of housing discrimination. HUD's disparate impact rule was strengthened in 2013 and upheld in a court case in 2015. However, in 2020, HUD issued its final disparate impact rule, which shifted the burden of proof of discrimination to the victims of housing discrimination. [18]

  9. Scandals of the Ronald Reagan administration - Wikipedia

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    The HUD rigging scandal occurred when Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Samuel Pierce and his associates rigged low income housing bids to favor Republican contributors to Reagan's campaign as well as rewarding Republican lobbyists such as James G. Watt Secretary of the Interior. [11]