The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority Board of Commissioners’ strategic plan, approved in 2012, included making housing overseen by the agency smoke-free within the next five years. This goal was developed in response to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development guidance that encouraged public-housing authorities to implement nonsmoking policies in some or all of their [...]

Nine homeless residents of Albemarle County are likely going to be homeless for a few more months, thanks to confusion over a federal housing voucher permitting process. The confusion is centered on federal funding for the use of project-based housing vouchers. The federal money has to come through the Department of Housing and Urban Development, [...]

RICHMOND, Va. – A Richmond City Council committee advanced a measure Thursday that could create a $10.1 million pool of loan funding to aid economic development, create affordable housing and alleviate blight, among other projects. The measure would allow the city to amend an application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for [...]

By Ryan Mooney, Globe Correspondent Historic Salem has announced that it has suspended its appeal with the Department of Housing and Urban Development of the St. Joseph’s Church federal section 106 process. HUD is scheduled to release $1.3 million in federal funds for the project, which would demolish the 61-year-old church and construct a $20 [...]

The 1940 census was released by the National Archives in April, offering those interested the opportunity find out where Uncle Fritz and Aunt Bessie grew up. But experts have been privy for many years to information about housing in 1940, when ramped-up war production finally brought an end to the Great Depression. What was it [...]

FAIRFIELD — An affordable housing developer, whose proposal to build rental apartments on Fairchild Avenue was rebuffed by the Town Plan and Zoning Commission, has filed a formal complaint against the town with the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Richard Freedman, president of Garden Homes Management, alleges the town is discriminating against his [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Members of the Saratoga Springs Housing Authority board elected a new chairman Thursday, and debated who has oversight over salaries and work contracts. The seven-member Board of Directors unanimously backed third-term member Eric Weller as chairman. The former dean of the Skidmore College faculty replaces Dennis Brunelle, who Mayor Scott Johnson declined [...]