More Power To Communities
We are changing the way HUD works to put communities -- not Washington -- first, so that all federal resources will help build safe, strong and hopeful communities from the ground up, with local priorities and needs leading the way, by...

• eliminating dozens of duplicative and unnecessary programs
• funding only what works
• wiping out bureaucratic rules and instead rewarding the best local performance
• moving staff out of DC and onto the front-lines of communities
• planting the seeds to grow private sector jobs and business in distressed communities

• blowing up the worst public housing and replacing it with livable apartments
• changing the incentives so people are encouraged to work instead of living off welfare
• cracking down hard on gangs and drug dealers
• evicting irresponsible tenants, suing corrupt owners and seizing mismanaged PHAs

• setting a goal of reaching the highest homeownership rate in U.S. history
• bringing down barriers to homeownership by lowering downpayments and closing costs
• shortening the time it takes to serve our customers
• pushing the private sector to help make homeownership more affordable
• protecting every American against rental and ownership discrimination

• moving staff out of Washington and into communities
• establishing local HUD Service Centers to stay in touch with communities
• retraining HUD personnel to meet 21st century community challenges
• using technology to create a virtual, paperless HUD