U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Federal funds will be used to spare Long Islanders from property tax increases stemming from superstorm Sandy. State and local officials said Wednesday that the tax stabilization plan would give tax breaks to those whose homes and businesses were...

In a mobile billboard for St. Paul development, the first light-rail test train rolled down University Avenue last month, passed the renovated Union Depot and glided into a new downtown maintenance facility. In all, more than $2 billion in development...

The federal government has an innovation problem — or does it? The answer depends on whom you ask. Federal employees surveyed over the past three years have had a declining view of government innovation. But that doesn't mean Uncle Sam doesn't...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In the fractious congressional battle over labor secretary nominee Thomas Perez, St. Paul pastor Fredrick Newell is the star witness caught in the middle. Newell, a longtime neighborhood jobs activist, became an unlikely witness...

Toledo City Council on Tuesday continued treading slowly toward its decision on how much federal money each homeless shelter in the city should receive -- a controversial topic for the second consecutive year. Council President Paula Hicks-Hudson said...

Broward County's contingent of homeless will soon be tracked as they wander through the system of support services, from hospital to jail to shelter, after the county authorized money to fund a computer database. The County Commission on Tuesday...

NEW YORK — As Bank of America Corp. pulls itself free from a swamp of mortgage liabilities, new troubles keep threatening to suck it back under. BofA agreed to settle a big insurer's claims over faulty mortgage bonds for $1.7 billion Monday. But...

By Hilary Russ and Edward Krudy NEW YORK, May 5 (Reuters) - Joseph Szczesny's modest Staten Island home was inundated when Superstorm Sandy slammed into the U.S. East Coast in October. Now six months later, the 63-year-old bridge repairman and his...

Federal authorities have approved more than $367 million in disaster aid to help Connecticut cover costs associated with storm Sandy, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Friday. The influx of cash includes $287 million from the Federal Emergency Management...

Seven people in Wichita have been charged in a federal mortgage fraud case.   An indictment alleged the scheme involved straw buyers and straw sellers, false loan applications and false supporting documentation submitted to lenders. Victims of the fraud...

A business leadership summer camp for girls came under fire this week as the City Council, acting in its dual role as the Housing Authority, decided how to divvy up shrinking federal funds for public social services. Councilman Ara Najarian said he...

The managers of an Allentown mortgage company told employees to forge pay stubs, employment histories and other documents to secure loans for borrowers to buy real estate that in many cases they could not afford, federal authorities allege. As a result,...