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Chicago wrongly limited affordable housing with aldermanic prerogative, HUD says

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is being asked to enter talks for an “informal resolution” of an almost five-year civil rights investigation by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Chicago Sun-Times

The answer to veterans homelessness could be one of LA's most expensive neighborhoods

A massive VA campus in West Los Angeles is finally housing hundreds of vets, and may finally change the city's worst-in-the-nation status on veterans homelessness.

WEKU

How does the government support people with Section 8 housing?

The Department of Housing and Urban Development offers two rental assistance programs for low-income Americans under Section 8 housing — Project-Based Rental Assistance and Housing Choice Vouchers.

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House GOP Threatens To Kill 'Baby YIMBY Grant' Program After First Year

The Democrat-controlled Senate meanwhile is proposing to expand the program.

Reason

Cities Want 'YIMBY Grants' To Pay for Bureaucratic Busy Work

Cities are asking for federal zoning-reform dollars to pay for plans that might never pass.

Reason

The Federal Government Spent $3.3 Billion on Office Furniture as Employees Worked From Home

The Department of Defense spent $1.2 billion on furniture between 2020 and 2022, although it only uses 23 percent of its office space.

Reason

South and West Siders plead for law to end pollution ‘sacrifice zones’

City Council members hear from public before a major environmental impact ordinance is introduced this year.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Everything you need to know about a government shutdown

The impacts of government shutdowns include furloughed employees, reductions in services, closed parks and museums, and much more.

USAFacts

Lexington-based nonprofit wins $1.5 million HUD grant to provide housing assistance for HIV-positive

A Lexington-based nonprofit that’s been helping HIV-positive people for more than three decades won a 1-point-5 million dollar grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

WEKU

Mayor Johnson’s environmental plan is a needed and welcome step for equity

The mayor has been moved to action, but his plan is just a first step to tackle the long-standing problem of environmental racism.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Feds Sue New York Landlords for Not Allowing a Tenant's Emotional Support Cat

The Department of Housing and Urban Development argues in its complaint that a failure to allow emotional support animals amounts to illegal disability discrimination under the Fair Housing Act.

Reason

Johnson unveils city reforms to fight environmental racism

“In the greatest city in the world, no neighborhood should have to suffer the burdens of pollution more so than any other neighborhood,” the mayor said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lexington apartment complex to receive $750K for HUD energy efficiency program

The 80-unit Malibu Manor Apartments in Lexington and another complex in Louisville will each receive three-quarters of a million dollars in federal Housing and Urban Development funds.

WEKU

What Is Redlining?

Redlining is a type of mortgage discrimination in which lenders deny loans based on a neighborhood's racial composition.

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How federal dollars might help El Paso stem its affordable housing crisis

Housing costs have soared in the Texas city in recent years, while the state cuts back on funding.

Kiplinger

HUD Investigates HSBC's U.S. Unit Over Redlining Allegations

Action prompted by a non-profit’s complaint to the agency involving six metro areas.

Capital & Main

Promise of Federal Funds Offers Hope to El Paso and Other Cities Amid Affordable Housing Crisis

Housing costs have soared in the Texas city in recent years, while the state cuts back on funding.

WEKU

Withering heat is more common, but getting AC is still a struggle in public housing

Many people in public housing are especially vulnerable to extreme heat, and there's no federal requirement for air conditioning. That leaves some tenants struggling to pay for it on their own.

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Reason

ACLU-Backed Complaint Says Not Renting to People With Past Evictions Is Illegal Race, Sex Discrimination

HOPE Fair Housing Center argues in a new federal complaint that an Illinois landlord's blanket refusal to rent to people with eviction records amounts to illegal sex and race discrimination.

The Independent UK

White House rolls out measures aimed at lowering cost of housing, increasing supply

The White House has announced a series of measures that it said would reduce the cost and increase the supply of housing while bolstering protection for renters

Chicago Sun-Times

Pioneering environmental justice organization threatened with eviction from South Side headquarters

The group founded in Altgeld Gardens in 1979 was part of a federal civil rights complaint prompting a city settlement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Tribune News Service

The spike in homelessness in US cities isn’t slowing down

Family homelessness in the US is on the rise in an alarming sign of how the increasing cost of goods, the ever-tightening housing supply and the end of most pandemic-era benefits are putting pressure on Americans.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Homeless issues don’t get much attention in Congress. Here’s why

WASHINGTON -- For months, the tents were visible from the Capitol’s windows.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lawsuit keeps questions about Chicago Fire soccer training facility in play

Details about the Chicago Housing Authority’s lease agreement with the Chicago Fire were kept under wraps until it was finalized, but a new lawsuit will hopefully lead to more transparency.

USAFacts

Weekly US Government Data Roundup: June 5, 2023

Facts on when Social Security could become insolvent, two ways to analyze the most competitive housing markets in the country, plus data on HUD's affordable housing program.

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