Twenty-five years of HUD
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was founded on Nov 9, 1965 during the Johnson Administration. The legislation creating HUD articulated the purpose of the new cabinet level agency as developing the metropolitan areas of the nation's cities. The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 authorized Section 8 rental assistance as the primary vehicle for providing housing assistance to low-income people, created the Community Development Block Grant program, and affected a reorganization of HUD to separate the community development and housing functions. The Bush administration has established new priorities for HUD that include alleviating homelessness and creating affordable housing.
Publication Name: Journal of Housing
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0272-7374
Year: 1991
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Fair housing: problems foster a new program
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) admits that a problem with the continued instances of segregation and discrimination in housing has been due, in part, to lax efforts on the part of HUD to enforce fair housing and anti-discrimination strategies. The incidence of segregation and discrimination have been allowed to exist due to problems in HUD enforcement of compliance with Title VI and VII by public housing authorities (PHAs). A new program, The Public Housing Affirmative Compliance Action (PHACA) program, is a new initiative by HUD to give PHAs the ability to conduct their own Title VI Compliance reviews and take action to promote desegregation.
Publication Name: Journal of Housing
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0272-7374
Year: 1991
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Target Independence: making tenants homeowners
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The Corpus Christi, Texas, Housing Authority has launched 'Target Independence,' an innovative demonstration program that aims to test the use of incentives to reward public housing families that improve their lives through employment and education. The program permits public housing families that have diligently attempted to break the cycle of poverty to transfer to an upscale apartment complex run by the housing authority at approximately the same rent as their previous housing development. The criteria used for selection are centered around the idea that families that have displayed outstanding community role model characteristics should be rewarded.
Publication Name: Journal of Housing
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0272-7374
Year: 1991
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