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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is taking action against a reverse mortgage lender in Hawaii.
The Housing and Urban Development Department is using $1.2 billion in stimulus money to fight homelessness in hundreds of locations across the country.
Taxpayer watchdog groups say something smells about $250,000 in federal funding earmarked for a factory farm in northwestern Missouri: Why is it coming from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development?
The Department of Housing and Urban Development will play a critical role in the economic recovery plan, first lady Michelle Obama said Wednesday.
A group of public interest lawyers sued the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Wednesday, seeking to stop the state of Mississippi from diverting $600 million in federal hurricane-relief funds intended for housing to a massive expansion of the state’s port facilities.
The Senate and the White House broke off talks late Thursday on confirming dozens of nominees, including President Bush's choice for housing secretary, until at least next month.
HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, his tenure tarnished by allegations of political favoritism and a criminal investigation, announced his resignation Monday amid the wreckage of the national housing crisis.
A majority of public housing residents dispersed by Hurricane Katrina do not want to return to the old brick buildings they lived in before the storm, according to a Department of Housing and Urban Development survey.
A seemingly ho-hum rules dispute between Philadelphia's public housing agency and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has led to accusations of favoritism and corruption against a member of President Bush's Cabinet.
Friendless and furious: Ku-ring-gai fights for lifeHeritage protections are among the most meagre in NSW and the appetite for development here is ravenous. Projects worth about $2 billion have been or are nearing completion in these prosperous streets. Ku-ring-gai is a new El Dorado for development in NSW. But it's also a joke.
Union Square Pyrmont saved by union greenbanA union green ban has been slapped on a site earmarked for the State Government's Pyrmont CBD Metro station in a direct confrontation between the Labor Government and the union movement.
US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to surviveDozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive" proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.
Unbuilt Buildings: 12 Awesome Future Architectural Designs Bold, bio-inspired, vertical and sustainable: those are the traits that architecture of the future will share, if you go by the trends in current cutting-edge concept designs.
Only in TexasWhere Bush will be moving is a neighborhood that may not want him. Rumor has it that the Bush family has bought land in another country. Moving there or at least someplace remote may be a better plan.
Obama Promotes Plan For Urban Development The plan features an increase in the minimum hourly wage, a new White House office focused on metropolitan areas and $60 billion to establish a national bank to finance public-works projects.
Can outer suburbs develop livable urban coresSuburbs long hoped to make themselves livable, but the challenge is that no large developers will put the resources forward to make it happen during a recession.
Who Needs Brad Pitt?Presidential candidates and congressmen are playing at housing policy as they realize the economic impact of the housing market slump, but they are tossing out possible solutions like baseball mascots tossing Cracker Jacks into the bleacher seats.
Anti-authoritarian Cities Archaeologists have discovered that Brak, a Syrian city and one of the oldest urban areas in the world, was built in a way that completely defies conventional wisdom about how cities grow.
On the, rocky shores of Peru, Humboldt Penguins create underground burrows to protect themselves and their eggs from predators and the intense South American sun.
Increased human activity along South America's coasts is severely impacting marine habitats and could have devastating effects on the people, plants, and animals that rely on them.
Housing Assistance Eludes the PoorThe Houston Chronicle reports, "Growing numbers of the nation's poorest households are using more than half their earnings for rent while waiting years for federal housing assistance that may never come."
Brownsville residents boot dealers & rats, reclaim homes - Mo VaughnHere is the story I talked about in a previous post about Mo Vaughn.
Evan (Makovsky) AlmightyDenver has seen the future of downtown development, and his name is Evan Makovsky.
Visions for a new Seattle Center being made publicBig changes could be in the future for the Seattle Center -- from flattening Memorial Stadium and bulldozing some of the Northwest Rooms to remodeling the Center House with glass walls and a glass roof.
If Brooklyn weren't a borough of the Big Apple, it would rank as the fourth largest city in the United States. Its downtown region is a vast mosaic of culturally diverse businesses that range from book sellers and beauty shops to multiethnic eateries.
Seeing the Seediness, and Celebrating ItNew York Times review of the new Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Cities of the Future Won't Look Like OursThe process I have described will probably be messy. Social turbulence should be expected.
What's behind Philadelphia's changing skyline?During a talk I gave last week about Philadelphia's strange conjunction of a condo boom and a planning vacuum, one questioner asked whether I thought the city's new affluence would drive out middle and low income residents.
Land seizures provoke growing anger in ChinaPeasants living in northern China are alarmed and enraged as local government authorities seize land on the outskirts of Beijing for urban development.
Old Jamestown Bridge Demolition: Bigger and BadderOn Thursday, a second round of explosives amounting to 1200 pounds are slated to take down the deck girders supporting the old Jamestown Bridge. Thursday's activity on the 66-year-old bridge is a follow-up to the dramatic April 18th detonation and removal of its center span.
Providence Parking Ban Faces ScrutinyPublished in one of Rhode Island's more active politiblogs. Alternatives to the 70-year-old overnight parking ban in the city of Providence have gathered steam.
"Leading the Creative Economy" -- Breakfast in TacomaTacoma hosted Richard Florida, author of "The Rise of the Creative Class" last October.
The United States Constitution allows private property to be seized only for "public use" provided that "just compensation" is paid to the owner. The Supreme Court recently decided that higher taxes are a "public use".
The Ironic Death and Life of a Strip ClubWhen Boston government honchos decided to kick a strip joint from its 20-year-old digs, they inadvertently forced the city to both pay the club for its land and relocate the business within the very same district—across the street.
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