For nearly 20 years, HUD has awarded HOPE VI Revitalization grants to public housing authorities across the U.S.- revitalizing public housing, transforming communities, and improving the lives of residents. ... Read On 

The federal government's largest housing construction program for the poor has squandered hundreds of millions of dollars on stalled or abandoned projects and routinely failed to crack down on derelict developers or the local housing agencies that funded them... Read On 

Today marked the groundbreaking of a $17 million development in East St. Louis adjacent to the Emerson Park MetroLink Station, Jazz @ Walter Circle. The $17 million development is a public-private partnership between the East St. Louis Housing Authority (ESLHA), Hampton Roads Ventures and Dudley Ventures, and is the first in the nation to combine public housing development funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development with New Market Tax Credits... Read On 

With multiple versions of two years' worth of federal budgets flying around, some details are still emerging about what's in and what's out. At the end of last week we heard that the FY2011 budget, which has been sent to the president for his signature, includes $100 million for the Partnership for Sustainable Communities... Read On 

The Department of Housing and Urban Development-whose secretary, Shaun Donovan, we profiled in Issue 29-is running a campaign to promote better understanding of its role in cities-and to promote its own understanding of what citizens want and need... Read On 

Livability and sustainability have been identified as top priorities by three government agencies: the Department of Transportation, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Environmental Protection Agency... Read On 

Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), knows a lot about big-city housing rehabilitation and construction issues. After all, he was New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's housing commissioner for four years before joining the Obama administration...

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced a bill this week that would cut $500 billion in government spending by the end of 2011, and one of the many casualties is the Department of Housing and Urban Development...