Earlier this week, I was fortunate to join Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, U.S. Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin and Dr. JudyAnn Bigby, Secretary of Health and Human Services for Massachusetts to talk about HUD’s efforts to promote health and prevent disease. This includes our work to encourage smoke-free housing. The event, at Boston’s Northeastern University, [...]
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Today, HUD and all federal agencies, under the leadership of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), released environmental justice strategies, implementation plans and progress reports, outlining steps agencies will take to protect communities facing greater health and environmental risks. The release of the environmental justice strategies is part [...]
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Yesterday, HUD announced that 13 communities across the country will receive $3.6 million in Choice Neighborhood Planning Grants. These grants will allow communities to transform public and assisted housing within a distressed community. Read more about these communities and how the Suffolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority, the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority, the Metropolitan Housing Alliance [...]
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Our guest blogger today is Stan Buch, Director of Innovation and Open Government, HUD’s Office of the Chief Information Officer From his first day in office, President Obama committed his Administration to maintaining an unprecedented spirit of openness, transparency, and collaboration. In his first directive on transparency and open government, President Obama said, “Openness will [...]
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A little girl from Arkansas said, “If you change where we live, you will change how we live.” This little girl, wise beyond her years knew exactly what she was talking about. Yesterday, HUD released the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) study at the How Housing Matters Conference, a fourteen year study that proved just how [...]
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