United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
Set up:	September 9, 1965
Seat:	Robert C. Weaver Federal Building , Washington, DC
Supervisory authority:	President of the United States
minister	Ben Carson
Deputy	Pam Patenaude
Household:	$ 48.5 billion (2011)
Employees:	9739 (2011)
Homepage:	hud.gov

The Department of Housing and Urban Development of the United States ( English United States Department of Housing and Urban Development - HUD ) is a Department of the US Federal Government . It was established to design and execute government initiatives on housing and urban development. The ministry has greatly reduced its urban development aspect in the past and is now mainly focusing on housing .

The department came into being on September 9, 1965 when then President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Housing and Urban Development Act . The ministry began work on January 13, 1966 following a study of the role of the federal government in urban problem solving.

Minister of the HUD ( United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development ) has been Ben Carson since March 2, 2017 .

tasks

The Ministry currently fulfills the following tasks:

• Regulation of the state mortgage lenders Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac
• Federal Housing Administration support for low-income housing construction
• Loans for the construction of health facilities
• Office of Public and Indian Housing: enables financial support for rent for low wage earners
• Office of Fair Housing and Public Opportunity: monitors the prohibition of discrimination in housing and rental
• Community Development Block Grants: financial support for urban development
• Affordable Housing Block Grants: Financial support for urban housing
• Ginnie Mae : Credit institution to finance the construction or purchase of houses for low-income earners
• Controls to prevent lead poisoning

Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, Department Headquarters

List of ministers

No.	photo	Surname	Term of office	in the President's Cabinet
1		Robert Clifton Weaver	January 18, 1966 - December 18, 1968	Lyndon B. Johnson
2		Robert Coldwell Wood	Jan. 7, 1969 - January 20, 1969
3		George Wilcken Romney	Jan. 22, 1969 - January 20, 1973	Richard Nixon
4th		James Thomas Lynn	February 2, 1973 - February 5, 1975	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
5		Carla Anderson Hills	March 10, 1975 - January 20, 1977	Gerald Ford
6th		Patricia Roberts Harris	January 23, 1977 - September 10, 1979	Jimmy Carter
7th		Maurice Edwin Landrieu	September 24, 1979 - January 20, 1981
8th		Samuel Riley Pierce	January 23, 1981 - January 20, 1989	Ronald Reagan
9		Jack French Kemp	February 13, 1989 - January 19, 1993	George Bush
10		Henry Gabriel Cisneros	January 22, 1993 - January 19, 1997	Bill Clinton
11		Andrew Mark Cuomo	January 29, 1997 - January 20, 2001
12		Melquíades Rafael Martinez	January 24, 2001 - December 12, 2003	George W. Bush
13		Alphonso Roy Jackson	March 31, 2004 - April 18, 2008
14th		Steven C. Preston	June 4, 2008 - January 20, 2009
15th		Shaun Donovan	January 26, 2009 - July 28, 2014	Barack Obama
16		Julián Castro	July 28, 2014 - January 20, 2017
17th		Benjamin Solomon Carson	Since March 2, 2017	Donald Trump

Web links

Commons : United States Department of Housing and Urban Development  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

• www.hud.gov: Official website of the Ministry (English)

Individual evidence

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