The Homestead Housing Authority board should be disbanded and the executive director fired, according to a blistering letter written by one board member. Board member Lois Jones laid out those recommendations in a letter to one of the housing authority’s federal funding agencies, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD. She also [...]

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan on Friday awarded public housing authorities in Wisconsin more than $15 million to be used to make major large-scale improvements to their public housing units. The grants are provided through HUD’s Capital Fund Program, which provides annual funding to all public housing authorities to build, [...]

<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 15–> LUMBERTON — A $9.5 million senior/public housing project is expected to be under way within the next month in the northwest section of town. Mayor Miriam Holder said Tuesday the city had been notified that the funding for a 48-unit, gated development to be named Azalea Gardens was to be made [...]

LITTLE BOSTON — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Tuesday announced $892,230 in Indian Housing Block Grant funds to the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe to support its efforts to meet the Tribe’s affordable housing needs. Earlier this month, HUD awarded $33.4 million in Indian Housing Block Grant funds to 25 other tribes in [...]

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb 21, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Yardi announced its general release of its new Yardi Beacon(TM) software solution for smaller affordable housing property managers and public housing authorities. As a browser-based software solution, Yardi Beacon provides seamless integration of property management, accounting and compliance features. Yardi Beacon provides a complete online property [...]

BEIJING, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) — China will strictly supervise the construction of affordable housing projects to ensure quality, a government official said Tuesday. Zhang Xueqin, deputy director of the housing security department under the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said the ministry will supervise the entire construction process, including geological surveying, designing, construction and [...]

view image PINE BLUFF (AP) — From the inside, the buildings seem like any other halfway house: a place where paroled offenders can transition back to society. Small beds are pushed up against cinderblock walls. An iron is perched on a shelf above a few plastic hangers. An alarm clock displays the time in bold, [...]