HUD Region 10 Public Affairs Soldiers in combat don’t have much time to worry about having a roof over their heads. But it’s back on the agenda once they return home. Turns out, though, that a lot of veterans have a hard time finding one. Every two years in the dead of winter thousands of [...]
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Sandra B. Henriquez, Assistant Secretary for HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing. This entry was co-authored with HUD Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research Dr. Raphael Bostic. The connection between housing and health is one that average families feel every day. More than 6.8 million American households pay more than half their income for [...]
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Our guest blogger today is Maria Queen, Federal Interagency Youth Initiatives, Community and Supportive Services Grant Manager, Office of Public and Indian Housing Youth violence is a serious problem in the United States. The U.S. Center for Disease Control estimates that 5,048 youth between the ages of 10 and 24 were victims of homicide in 2009. Youth and [...]
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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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Last year, HUD released its final Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing report. A fourteen year study, MTO examined how families who moved to a neighborhood with lower poverty and crime saw sustained improvements in the family environment, housing quality and health. Yesterday as we celebrated the efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlantic [...]
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