United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development | |
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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
List of ministers
No. | photo | Surname | Term of office | in the President's Cabinet |
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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
Individual evidence
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