United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD): Difference between revisions

In the 1930s and 1940s, the United States government had taken a direct role in creating and managing affordable housing. In conjunction with HUD and Congressional legislators, in 1968, Johnson set HUD on a path of overseeing and regulating affordable housing largely created by and managed by the private sector - a shift that has greatly influenced housing development in the United States.

 

 

The agency’s central, long-standing mandates, some of which were legislated before its inauguration are:

HUD is also tasked with administering federal disaster and recovery (1973). HUD is headed by a presidentially-appointed Secretary. Today the agency oversees a budget of over $30 billion.

 

 

*Housing: HUD’s Housing Office is responsible for oversight of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac programs, running the Federal Housing Administration, regulating manufactured housing, and administering multifamily housing programs, including Supportive Housing for the Elderly (Section 202) and Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities (Section 811)

*Public and Indian Housing: This office administers the public housing program HOPE VI, the Housing Choice Voucher Program (formerly – yet more popularly – known as Section 8), Project-Based Vouchers,[21] and individual loan programs housing block grants[22] for Indian tribes, Native Hawaiians and Alaskans.

 

 

There are significant clusters of housing-related Federal legislation in the 1930s and 1940s, in the 1960s, and again in the 1990s and early 2000s.

 

Presidential Administration: George W. Bush (R).