by Susan Gittelman | Feb 19, 2023
The $1.2 trillion federal infrastructure law had an unintended consequence: Forcing affordable housing developments to abide by expensive and potentially unavailable U.S.-produced materials. Now there’s relief.
by Susan Gittelman | Dec 11, 2022
A small shift in federal housing policy is yielding results that have the potential to better the lives of hundreds of thousands of low-income families.
by James Sanna | May 17, 2022
In the face of a massive, nation-wide shortage of housing construction, the White House announced a new slate of initiatives Monday to try to speed up the building of new units.
by Banker & Tradesman | Mar 29, 2022
A former employee of Worcester’s Housing Development Office and Executive Office of Economic Development will serve more than three years in prison for her role in a $2.3 million fraud scheme relating to the redevelopment of a multi-family property in Worcester.
by Banker & Tradesman | Sep 8, 2021
Federal housing regulators want input from industry and community groups on how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will measure their own efforts to reduce racial inequality in the mortgage market.
by Banker & Tradesman | Jun 18, 2020
The Federal Housing Administration is extending its COVID-19 foreclosure and eviction moratorium for the second time, this time for two months.
by The Associated Press | Feb 18, 2020
Dozens of public housing authorities across Massachusetts are sharing about $88 million in federal grants to help improve their properties and make them more livable.
by The Associated Press | Feb 4, 2020
A civil rights complaint filed Monday accuses the Boston Planning & Development Agency of violating federal law by failing to ensure non-English speakers can participate in discussions about the future of the city’s biggest development site in a generation.
by Lew Sichelman | Jul 14, 2019
The Trump administration has decided the country’s 800,000 “Dreamers” – undocumented immigrants brought here as children but who have grown up here – are no longer eligible for federally insured mortgages, causing consternation and confusion among mortgage lenders.
by The Associated Press | Mar 20, 2019
The changes to Facebook’s advertising methods are unprecedented. The social network says it will no longer allow housing, employment or credit ads that target people by age, gender or ZIP code.
by Banker & Tradesman | Mar 6, 2019
Secretary Ben Carson, head of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, may be leaving his post at the end of President Donald Trump’s current term in 2020.
by Scott Van Voorhis | Jan 21, 2018
NIMBY suburbanites, rejoice: President Donald Trump has your back. The Trump administration just took a big step toward gutting a noble Obama-era initiative, one that required cities and towns across the country to submit plans for tackling racial segregation and inequality in housing.
by Banker & Tradesman | Jul 12, 2017
Sen. Elizabeth Warren plans to take to the streets of Washington on Wednesday to add to pressure from mayors for President Trump to protect federal investment in affordable housing.
by Jim Morrison | Jun 28, 2017
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a total of more than $4.4 million to the cities of Brockton, Malden and Somerville yesterday. The money is to be used to protect children and families from lead-based paint and other hazards in the home.
by Peter Paul Payack | Mar 26, 2017
HUD might be in for a surprise under Trump’s new budget.
by Jim Morrison | Mar 26, 2017
President Donald Trump’s recently released “skinny” budget, while a long way from being enacted, is a step in the direction of fulfilling his campaign promises.
by Banker & Tradesman | Dec 28, 2016
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh recently announced the city has received a $24.2 million federal award from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that will support Boston’s efforts to end chronic homelessness.
by Scott Van Voorhis | Nov 20, 2016
Our improbable president-elect is a hard one to read, with everyone and his brother trying to guess which parts of the Obama legacy will be the first to get the royal flush.
by Banker & Tradesman | Oct 20, 2016
The U.S. Attorney’s office has reached a $1.025 million civil settlement with a Brighton-based mortgage lender and its founder and CEO in connection with allegations that they submitted false insurance claims on mortgages insured by the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Federal Housing Administration (FHA).
by Banker & Tradesman | Apr 7, 2015
The former assistant director of the Chelsea Housing...