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.

Jan 29, 2025 · Researchers at Texas A&M University with a grant under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Hispanic Serving Institutions Research Center of Excellence grant program received emails at 5:05 p.m. ET on Tuesday (despite the judge’s injunction) instructing them to cease all work on their grants to comply with the OMB memo.

3 days ago · Shelterforce’s 50th Anniversary Celebration—A Legacy of Impact, A Future of Possibilities. For 50 years, Shelterforce has been at the forefront of affordable housing and community development, championing stories of resilience, innovation, and advocacy that have shaped communities across the nation.

Mar 4, 2025 · Deputy Director, Full-Time Hybrid – San Francisco, CA March 2025 Affordable housing is fundamental to thriving communities, yet too many people in the Bay Area face housing insecurity. At the […]

Jan 17, 2025 · The idea that any housing advocacy group should bow to Trump messaging in Project 2025 is ludicrous. The ultimate stakeholders are not the developers who want a sweeter deal but supporting the very persons likely to become homeless — …

Jan 24, 2025 · Reported Article Construction. How Might Tariffs and Deportations Affect Affordable Housing Development? Many affordable housing developers worry Trump’s proposed taxes on imports and crackdown on immigration will be detrimental to the industry.

Mar 22, 2024 · Reported Article Financialization. Blockbusting the Big Boys: Bill Would Ban Hedge Funds from Owning Single-Family Homes. The End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act is an ambitious attempt to keep private equity's influence out of single-family homes.

Oct 6, 2022 · Freedomland: Co-op City and the Story of New York, by Oberlin College history professor Annemarie Sammartino, traces the history of Co-op City from its initial planning stages in the mid 1960s through the early 1990s, including a major rent strike, the assertion of community control, race and class dynamics, and the ways the development reflected what was happening in New York City as a whole.