U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said Wednesday it will close its field offices in Sacramento and Fresno, along with 14 others nationwide, as part of a restructuring that HUD expects to save up to $150 million. The move to close HUD'...

What could the best development of key remaining parcels on Erie's bayfront mean to the city's economic future? "We think it's a driver and a potential game-changer, and there is enough change left in the development pattern right now to make a...

Santa Clara County low-income families who receive federal vouchers will have to pay more toward their monthly rent as part of a housing authority plan to deal with $21 million in sequester-forced budget cuts. On Tuesday, the housing authority's board...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The co-owner and president of a closed real estate company that defrauded dozens of residents of new homes and investors in those homes pleaded guilty in Greene County Circuit Court on Tuesday.  Scott Dasal’s admissions follow...

San Bernardino County's homeless population decreased 19 percent over 2011 numbers, with a bolstering of housing assistance programs at the federal and local level partly attributed to the decline, officials said. Of the 2,321 homeless persons counted,...

Homelessness in San Bernardino County is down 19 percent from 2011, according to preliminary data released Monday from the county 2013 Point-In-Time Homeless Count. The number of those homeless in the county decreased from 2,876 in 2011 to 2,321 counted...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- No person or company placed a bid on Monday afternoon on the building that used to be Heer’s Department Store -- except the investment company that held the mortgage on it.  On the other hand, the auctioneer didn't expect...

About 70 people jammed into the Bloomington City Council chambers Monday to discuss a regional approach to preventing and ending homelessness in south-central Indiana. The crowd thinned to about 45 toward the end of the eight-hour gathering -- the first...

The goal of Destination Erie is to create a vision for northwest Pennsylvania's future, particularly by creating a plan to develop Erie's bayfront. To do that, the organizers of the program are taking a look at some of the best ideas of the past....

The nonprofit Supportive Housing Communities last year faced a neighborhood backlash over its plan to house 100 chronically homeless people in a vacant building in Elizabeth. The project died soon after when local funding dried up as well. Now, the...

Q: When my tenant moved in, I collected a security deposit of one month's rent, plus last month's rent. Now, 10 years and two rent hikes later, the tenant is leaving and says she won't write a check for the difference between the current rent and the rent...

Q: My tenant assigned his lease to his friend without my consent, and I didn't realize it until the new "tenant" withheld rent over repairs. I lost the case, which turned on the anti-assignment clause and the difference between "cannot" and "may not."...