HUD News

HUD will direct all FHA-approved lenders to provide loan relief to families affected by the recent terrorist attacks.

Communities that receive RC or EZ designation will be able to use a revitalizing business tax incentive package valued at $22 billion nationwide.

Housing Assistance Council finds that far too many rural Americans still lack decent, affordable housing.

Minority homeownership rate set a new all-time record of 48.8 percent in the second quarter of 2001, with 13.2 million minority families owning their homes.

A Washington, D.C., faith-based group is teaming up with HDU to renovate and sell hundreds of vacant homes in the D.C. area.

HUD Secretary Mel Martinez is reactivating a federal council that will coordinate the activities of 15 agencies as part of a comprehensive effort to improve the delivery of federal services to homeless individuals and families.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Mel Martinez outlines the U.S. housing vision at U.N. conference.

U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development grants $10 million in assistance for housing and community development programs in four Michigan communities.

A study recently released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development examines the feasibility of deconstruction as practiced by four urban communities.

HUD will provide grants to colleges and universities to assist low-income graduate students preparing for careers in community planning and development.

In a dramatic move to spur construction of much-needed multi-family rental housing across the country, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Mel Martinez today proposed that HUD raise the FHA loan limits by 25 percent.

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Mel Martinez announced that HUD will earmark an additional $105 million to help pay the utility bills of public housing authorities and resident management corporations blind-sided by energy costs.

The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will sponsor its first comprehensive homeownership planning conference for urban Indian areas March 27-28 in Seattle, WA.

The Federal Housing Administration's mortgage sales programrecently reached a milestone when it completed the Multifamily and Healthcare Loan Sale.

Nine U.S. housing projects, built by public and private partnerships, received HUD awards for innovative design in affordable housing.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has made all of the data from their "State of the Cities Report" available online.

The number of very-low-income U.S. renter households that pay more than 50 percent of theirmonthly gross income for rent or live in severely inadequate housing dropped about eight percent between 1997 and1999, according to a HUD report.

A new HUD report highlights eight promising economic development strategies based on case studies in 10 American cities.

A newly released study highlights the strategies of 10 successful cities that have done a great job of using their assets to thrive in the new economy.

Hundreds of homes in New York City targeted byunscrupulous lenders and not-for-profits will be rehabilitated by HUD and sold to reputable community-based, not-for-profits and moderate-incomehomebuyers.