Recent Streetsblog USA posts about HUD

Federal Support for Smart Planning Is on the Line Tomorrow

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 19, 2011 | 1 Comment

Tomorrow, a Senate panel will vote on two budget bills for FY2012, one of which is for transportation and housing programs. The draft of the bill isn’t available until after the subcommittee markup tomorrow, but Smart Growth America is calling attention to the fact that it’s important to make sure the bill includes funding for the […]

Federal Regulations at Odds with Demand for Urban Housing

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 26, 2011 | 2 Comments

The real estate market is undergoing the most rapid period of change in a generation — and the shift is decidedly urban. A succession of recent studies have found there is an under-supply of urban-style housing — attached and small-lot, single-family homes — on the scale of about 13 million units. On the other hand, […]

$100 Million for HUD Sustainability Program Survives in This Year’s Budget

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 18, 2011 | 2 Comments

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. According […]

Home Builders Urge Fannie, Freddie to Get Behind Mixed-Use Development

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 18, 2011 | 3 Comments

Urbanists have won an important victory in their campaign to reverse Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s bias against mixed-use development, enlisting the National Association of Home Builders to help push for a critical reform to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s lending standards. The mortgage giants currently require that projects they finance be no more than […]

Turning the Queen Mary: A Conversation with HUD, Part II

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 24, 2010 | No Comments

How do three massive governmental bureaucracies (HUD, DOT, and EPA) nimbly change their approaches and procedures to work together on the Partnership for Sustainable Communities? How can communities ensure that transit-oriented development doesn’t end up pricing out existing residents? How can recipients of federal planning grants move from planning to implementation of livability strategies? Streetsblog […]

Livability and the GOP: A Conversation With HUD’s Mariia Zimmerman

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 23, 2010 | 4 Comments

Perhaps the Obama administration’s greatest contribution to building more livable, less traffic-choked communities has been the new partnership between three agencies — DOT, EPA, and HUD — which are helping towns and cities grow more sustainably, using strategies from brownfield redevelopment to the provision of affordable housing along transit corridors. The agencies have collaborated to […]

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