Housing and Community Grants

Housing and Community Grants
Author: U.s. Government Accountability Office
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2017-08-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781974438815

Pursuant to the Fair Housing Act, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) regulations require grantees, such as cities, that receive federal funds through the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) to further fair housing opportunities. In particular, grantees are required to prepare planning documents known as Analyses of Impediments (AI), which are to identify impediments to fair housing (such as restrictive zoning or segregated housing) and actions to overcome them. HUD has oversight responsibility for AIs. This report (1) assesses both the conformance of CDBG and HOME grantees AIs with HUD guidance pertaining to their timeliness and content and their potential usefulness as planning tools and (2) identifies factors in HUDs requirements and oversight that may help explain any AI weaknesses.GAO requested AIs from a representative sample of the nearly 1,200 grantees, compared the 441 AIs received (95 percent response based on final sample of 466) with HUD guidance and conducted work at HUD headquarters and 10 offices nationwide.

Housing and Community Grants

Housing and Community Grants
Author: United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2018-01-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781983623653

Housing and Community Grants: HUD Needs to Enhance Its Requirements and Oversight of Jurisdictions' Fair Housing Plans

Fair Housing & Funding

Fair Housing & Funding
Author: Davon Management Company
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1972
Genre: Discrimination in housing
ISBN:

This manual, prepared for the benefit of fair housing organizations across the nation, is based on information taken from the HUD National Fair Housing Conference of April 1975.

Getting by

Getting by
Author: Helen Hershkoff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 945
Release: 2019
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0190080868

Getting By offers an integrated, critical account of the federal laws and programs that most directly affect poor and low-income people in the United States-the unemployed, the underemployed, and the low-wage employed, whether working in or outside the home. The central aim is to provide a resource for individuals and groups trying to access benefits, secure rights and protections, and mobilize for economic justice. The topics covered include cash assistance, employment and labor rights, food assistance, health care, education, consumer and banking law, housing assistance, rights in public places, access to justice, and voting rights. This comprehensive volume is appropriate for law school and undergraduate courses, and is a vital resource for policy makers, journalists, and others interested in social welfare policy in the United States.

Housing Policy in the United States

Housing Policy in the United States
Author: Alex F. Schwartz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2014-08-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1135045232

The classic primer for its subject, Housing Policy in the United States, has been substantially revised in the wake of the 2007 near-collapse of the housing market and the nation’s recent signs of recovery. Like its previous editions, this standard volume offers a broad overview of the field, but expands to include new information on how the crisis has affected the nation’s housing challenges, and the extent to which the federal government has addressed them. Schwartz also includes the politics of austerity that has permeated almost all aspects of federal policymaking since the Congressional elections of 2010, new initiatives to rehabilitate public housing, and a new chapter on the foreclosure crisis. The latest available data on housing conditions, housing discrimination, housing finance, and programmatic expenditures is included, along with all new developments in federal housing policy. This book is the perfect foundational text for urban studies, urban planning, social policy, and housing policy courses.