Housing discrimination still prevalent, study finds
Source: Chicago Tribune
Hūd :: Iran | updated 2013-06-11 19:33:35 -0700 | political-news
Hispanics have made strides in their access to housing but Asian and African-American homebuyers looking to purchase a home still are told about or shown far fewer homes than equally qualified white consumers, a new national study has determined. However,...
Sandy Survivors Denied Aid Under Federal Rule
Source: Epoch Times
Hūd :: Iran | updated 2013-06-10 15:08:33 -0700 | political-news
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) policy dictates that agencies giving out funds for disaster recovery first determine whether a duplication of benefits exists...That includes cash, insurance payouts, grants, and Small Business Association (SBA) loans.
Every Car Should Come With This Feature That Makes Driving Safer And Easier
Source: BusinessInsider
Hūd :: Iran | updated 2013-06-10 12:21:18 -0700 | technology-news
BMW BMW's Head-Up Display shows speed and navigation directions. I spent some time in BMW's 2012 M6 last month, and found the convertible to be enjoyable, but confusing . One feature, though, really stood out: The heads-up display. After a...
Utah landlord to HUD renters: Quit smoking or move
Source: Fox
Hūd :: Iran | updated 2013-06-10 00:03:37 -0700 | technology-news
Published June 09, 2013 FoxNews.com A Utah landlord has the backing of state and federal officials in his move to ban smoking from an entire government-subsidized property including outside the complex, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. "We made a policy...
Layton landlord: Quit smoking or move out of HUD housing
Source: The Salt Lake City Tribune
Hūd :: Iran | updated 2013-06-07 00:30:15 -0700 | political-news
In an April 29 notice, Banks informed his low-income renters that they can either quit smoking by Nov. 1 or find somewhere else to live. "What smoke free means is that you can't smoke within 25 feet of the apartment...
Veterans will receive U.S. rental housing vouchers
Source: Mail Tribune
Hūd :: Iran | updated 2013-06-03 02:51:01 -0700 | health-news
MailTribune.com Mail Tribune Seventy-five homeless veterans in southwestern Oregon soon will have a home they can call their own, thanks to rental vouchers provided by Uncle Sam...Department of Veterans Affairs, announced it will provide 75 HUD Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing...
The woman who paid for Beazer’s sins
Source: Charlotte Observer Online
Hūd :: Iran | updated 2013-06-01 17:19:25 -0700 | business-news
Janette Parker is so embarrassed by the electronic ankle bracelet locked around her right leg that she wears long pants, dresses in private and slips beneath the bedcovers before allowing her closest confidante, the man she married 29 years ago,...
Before Google Glass There Was Transcend
Source: Entrepreneur
Hūd :: Iran | updated 2013-05-29 13:12:57 -0700 | technology-news
Long before Google Glass came on the scene, there was Transcend. Released by Canadian company Recon Instruments in 2010, the ski goggles used Heads-Up Display (HUD) technology, which projects data and graphics directly on the inside of the goggles, to...
Feds target Arizona complex for hearing-impaired
Source: USA Today
Hūd :: Iran | updated 2013-05-29 05:03:03 -0700 | political-news
EDT May 29, 2013 HUD is threatening legal action against the complex for discriminating against potential hearing residents. Ariz. -- Many residents of Apache ASL Trails moved to Tempe from other states to be part of a community where they...
Pictured: The best homes built in America in 2012 (one even comes with a living room IN a forest)
Source: Mail Online UK
Hūd :: Iran | updated 2013-05-26 10:58:34 -0700 | political-news
26 May 2013 38 shares 0 View comments The American Institute of Architects announced the winners of the 2013 AIA/HUD Secretary Housing Award with the top prize going to a contemporary-styled home in Orca Islands, Washington State. At the request...
It's Furlough Friday for federal workers
Source: Inquirer.net
Hūd :: Iran | updated 2013-05-25 11:22:48 -0700 | political-news
The first day of US government furloughs imposed by a budget crunch saw an estimated 115,000 workers, including those at the scandal-plagued Internal Revenue Service (IRS), ordered to stay home on Friday. The largest nonweather-related US government closure in years...
Salt Lake County nabs $2.5 million HUD grant
Source: The Salt Lake City Tribune
Hūd :: Iran | updated 2013-05-24 15:47:26 -0700 | political-news
Department of Housing and Urban Development grant to target lead and other health hazards in low-income housing. Salt Lake County Housing Manager Randy Jepperson, who applied for the grant, said he shouted out in jubilation Thursday when he received the...
Sunnyvale: Nonprofits feel the cuts of HUD federal funding
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Hūd :: Iran | updated 2013-05-23 21:37:15 -0700 | business-news
Investment Partnerships Program funds for fiscal year 2013-14...An additional $100,000 in supplemental general fund money will also be allocated. Since the federal budget has not been finalized, the entitlement estimate may be reduced or increased prior to the July allocations,...
US-type house auction scheme could free our 'pillar banks' from loans in less than year
Source: Independent
Hūd :: Iran | updated 2013-05-22 21:17:08 -0700 | business-news
In fact, a majority of the delinquent mortgages could be removed from the 'pillar banks' in little less than a year, freeing them to focus on new lending to support growth of the Irish economy. In 2012, about 95,000 home...
HUD to take furlough day May 24
Source: The Journal Gazette
Hūd :: Iran | updated 2013-05-23 22:36:39 -0700 | business-news
The days are being paired with holidays and weekends to ease their effect, the department said in a statement. Unless action is taken to overcome the reductions, the department said, it would need to close on six additional days during...
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