Community Development Digest

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HUD Wants to Update Application Process

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) seeks observations on the proposal documents that applicants use to apply for its funding.

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HUD's 50th Birthday Successes Challenged

While HUD is pulling out all stops on the department’s 50th birthday celebration with a variety of festivities planned or already underway, the department’s critics have lined up to undercut HUD’s claims of success by focusing on its failures.

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Final Rule to Ease ‘Portability’

HUD offers the final rule that will govern portability in the Housing Choice Voucher program (http://tinyurl.com/4v4kmgr ). HCVs allow very low-income families to choose and lease or purchase safe, decent, and affordable privately-owned rental housing.

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HUD to Boot ‘Income Ineligibles’ from Public Housing

In response to volumes of harsh criticism it received in the wake of a scathing report by its inspector general, the Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) plans to remove from public housing tenants who earn more than the income requirements.

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HUD Clarifies ‘Equal Participation’ for Faith-based Groups

The Department of Housing & Urban Development issues a proposed rule that would amend its existing regulations pertaining to equal participation of faith-based organizations in HUD programs.

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HUD Takes Action against SD Apartment Complex Owners, Landlords

HUD is charging the owners and landlords of an eight-unit apartment complex in Sioux Falls, SD with violating the Fair Housing Act by refusing to allow a resident with disabilities to use a wheelchair in his apartment.

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HUD Secretary’s Award for Health Homes Winners Named

Four model programs in Alaska, Maine, Missouri and Wisconsin are winners of the inaugural HUD Secretary’s Award for Healthy Homes, each being recognized for excellence in promoting resident health through housing interventions.

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HUD Issues Guidance on LGBT Equal Access to Housing

The rule ensures that housing across HUD programs is open to all eligible individuals regardless of actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or marital status, including Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly.

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HUD Finalizes Fair Housing Rule; Leaders Praise Measure

Following in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the Department of Housing & Urban Development’s (HUD) interpretation the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) section of the Fair Housing Act (FHA), HUD announces its final AFFH rule, which it says is aimed at equipping communities receiving HUD funding with data and tools to help them meet long-standing fair housing obligations in their use of HUD funds.

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Bank Yields to HUD; Settles $200 Million ‘Redlining’ Case

The Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) reaches an agreement with Associated Bank N.A. to resolve a disparate treatment redlining case. At approximately $200 million, this is the largest settlement of its kind HUD has ever reached.

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