U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Across-the-board cuts in the federal budget will force the Department of Housing and Urban Development to close its offices on May 24 and possibly six other days. HUD, which provides assistance programs for low-income and homeless people, said Friday...

A stalled residential marina development in Blue Island has been purchased by a south suburban company that built its name rehabbing foreclosed homes. Tinley Park-based Mack Cos. acquired 27 acres at Fay's Point, on a peninsula between the Cal-Sag...

The well-known African proverb says, "It takes a village to raise a child." The St. Joseph YWCA could adapt this message: It takes a caring community to lift women from the depths of despair. Last winter, the YWCA received a $57,000 Department of...

Democratic City Council candidates agreed Thursday night that the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority needs work. At a forum hosted by The Daily Progress and Charlottesville Tomorrow, five hopefuls for two Democratic nominations for...

Ignoring Mayor Mike Bell's defiant attempt to cut them out of the plan to allocate millions of federal grant dollars this year, Toledo City Council voted on Thursday to restore funding to three homeless shelters that were facing sharp cutbacks and also...

The Shoppes on Peoria was a long time coming, but tenants and customers apparently feel it was worth the wait. The grand opening of the shopping center at 1717 N. Peoria Ave. -- just north of Pine Street -- will be from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday....

The number of Oahu's homeless people is growing at a higher rate than last year, and an important metric, the number living on streets instead of shelters, rose 11 percent, according to the latest Homeless Point-in-Time Count. The count, conducted Jan....

A Los Angeles tenants advocacy group praised mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti in a report card this week, but said rival Wendy Greuel failed to stop developers from ousting renters in her east San Fernando Valley district. The Coalition for Economic...

The Maryland Center for Veterans Education and Training's Baltimore complex is full of neatly made beds and shining-clean floors, a military-like environment for homeless former service members working to get their lives back on track. Its executive...

In the months ahead, several units of affordable and special-needs housing will be heading to Ventura. Mobile homes will be given much-needed improvements, the Westpark Community Center will get some upgrades and more business loans will become...

Two contractors who finished clearing debris from the site of last year's building collapse on North Shamokin Street are livid they haven't yet been paid in full. City clerk Steve Bartos says he sympathizes with them, but he's continuing to work with...

In 1952, Jesse Berain came from his home state of Texas to work in Idaho's onion, potato and beet fields. The son of a French Basque father and an American Indian mother, he didn't bother arguing the finer points of his heritage with the Magic Valley...