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*Policy Development and Research (PD&R): This HUD office is tasked with maintaining current information on market conditions, housing needs and existing programs, as well as with researching priority housing and community development issues via the HUD USER Clearinghouse.
*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.
== Housing Highlights from HUD’s History (including preceding foundational legislation) ==
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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.
'''1934''' – The National Housing Act establishes the Federal Housing Administration, which facilitates mortgage insurance on FHA-approved lender loans made by FHA-approved lenders.This Act also formally established "redlining" neighborhoods (also termed "mortgage discrimination") a practice that would entrench racial and ethnic segregation across the country and that has had a lasting impact on the fortunes of minority communities and households as well as the shape of the nation's neighborhoods up until the present.
''Presidential Administration: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D).''
'''1937''' – The Housing Act of 1937 inaugurates the United States Housing Authority, which oversees slum-clearance projects and the construction of low-rent housing. One critique of this act is that by sectioning off and isolating low income public housing projects that the Act further laid the foundations for racial and ethnic segregation, as much of the poor population it impacted were racial or ethnic minorities.
''Presidential Administration: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D).''
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''Presidential Administration: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D).''
'''1949''' – The Housing Act of 1949 is put in place a policy of "urban redevelopment" to promote the eradication of housing in communities classed as slums and promote community development and redevelopment programs.
''Presidential Administration: Harry S. Truman (D).''
'''1954'''''- ''The Housing Act of 1954 introduced the now-fraught term "urban renewal." It is this policy a continuation of the previous "urban development", that involved the razing of housing in largely minority communities and other issues around housing that would result in the displacement of hundreds by eminent domain from their neighborhoods and help fan frustrations in minority communities that would culminate in the 1960s in mass protests and rioting in cities across the country. The era of "urban renewal" would run through to the early 1970s and left behind it a fear of displacement and suspicion of development in malower-incomeome minority communities.
''Presidential Administration: Dwight D. Eisenhower (R).''
'''1959 '''– The Housing Act of 1959 sets in place funding for elderly housing.
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''Presidential Administration: George W. Bush (R).''
== References ==
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