U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

— The town is anticipating a 5 percent reduction in its annual community development block grant because of the effects of federal sequestration, according to Grants Administrator Clare Fravel. While the department of Housing and Urban...

During separate video interviews with the Los Angeles Times last month, candidates for L.A. mayor Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel responded to questions from individual voters. Among them is Mollie Lowrey, who asked: What will the candidates do to help...

The Costa Mesa City Council on Tuesday is scheduled to consider approving a loan of up to $500,000 to help pay for permanent housing for the city's homeless population. If approved by the council and the city's Housing Authority, which replaced the...

The Maryland Center for Veterans Education and Training's Baltimore complex is full of neatly made beds and shining-clean floors, a military-like environment for homeless former service members working to get their lives back on track. Its executive...

By the time Gov. Martin O'Malley left the Democratic convention last fall, he had schmoozed with party leaders from Iowa, spoken to potential donors and hosted swanky parties that kept delegates entertained into the next morning — efforts that...

Across-the-board cuts in the federal budget will force the Department of Housing and Urban Development to close its offices on May 24 and possibly six other days. HUD, which provides assistance programs for low-income and homeless people, said Friday...

A stalled residential marina development in Blue Island has been purchased by a south suburban company that built its name rehabbing foreclosed homes. Tinley Park-based Mack Cos. acquired 27 acres at Fay's Point, on a peninsula between the Cal-Sag...

The manager of an Allentown mortgage company who obtained fraudulent loans worth $1.5 million has pleaded guilty in federal court. Joel Tillett, 36, of Whitehall Township admitted to conspiracy and forging loan documents to ensure clients' mortgage...

A South Florida nonprofit is putting the final touches on its third building of affordable housing for low-income seniors in Pembroke Pines. Miami Jewish Health Systems received a $10.5 million federal grant to construct the new 75-apartment, eco-...

Nearly three dozen workers at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development office in Baltimore — roughly a third of the agency's workforce in Maryland — are being forced to transfer out of state or take a buyout. The choice, which...

Miami Jewish Health Systems has further expanded its reach in Broward County by opening its third facility there. MJHS recently hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony and open house for its newly constructed Douglas Gardens North III building located in...

Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...