Recent Streetsblog SF posts about HUD

Federal Regulations at Odds with Demand for Urban Housing

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 26, 2011 | No 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, […]

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Applications for TIGER II Funding Overwhelm What U.S. DOT Can Dish Out

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 27, 2010 | No Comments

For every dollar awarded from the U.S. DOT’s TIGER II grant program, there are more than $30 that applicants are asking for but won’t be getting. That’s the word from the DOT, which announced on Friday that it had received about $19 billion in applications for nearly 1,000 projects “from all 50 states, U.S. territories […]

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Livable Communities Act Clears Senate Committee

By Ben Fried | Aug 4, 2010 | No Comments

The Senate Banking Committee voted 12-10 yesterday in favor of the Livable Communities Act, legislation that would bolster the Obama administration’s initiatives to link together transportation, housing, economic development, and environmental policy. Shaun Donovan, Ray LaHood, Lisa Jackson: Together forever? The Livable Communities Act would codify the partnership between HUD, US DOT, and the EPA. […]

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Feds to Start Scoring Transportation Potential of Housing Grant Applicants

By Elana Schor | May 24, 2010 | No Comments

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan said late Friday that his agency will soon start gauging the "location efficiency" of its grant applicants, determining each project’s potential for connecting residents to surrounding neighborhoods — and mirroring the recommendations of a recent report that found a correlation between homeowners’ foreclosure risk and their dependence […]

Dodd Vows to Pass Livability Bill Amid Skepticism From Rural Senators

By Elana Schor | Mar 9, 2010 | No Comments

Even as the Obama administration ramps up its work on a sustainability initiative that treats transportation, housing, and energy efficiency as interconnected aspects of development policy, the effort remains without an official congressional authorization — a situation that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) vowed to fix yesterday. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd […]

EPA and HUD Make Big Investments in Sustainable Development

By Elana Schor | Feb 8, 2010 | No Comments

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are making significant progress on their joint effort, with the U.S. DOT, to connect cleaner transportation options with affordable housing and denser urban development. A future commuter rail station along Boston’s Fairmount Line, one of five areas selected for EPA sustainable […]

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