U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Good News, New Yorkers: You Might Get Your Sandy Repair Money After All

At the beginning of this month, Sandy relief dollars ($1.77 billion, to be exact) from Washington began to trickle in to the metropolitan area. But there was a tiny issue: the money would only go to future development - not repairs for past damages. Remember this? It was a policy that separated Ne ... More >>

What The Fiscal Cliff Means For New York, Pt. 2

Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid admitted his cynicism towards a fiscal cliff compromise, blaming the House Republicans' "dictatorship." The New York Post's cover featured a diver jumping off a cliff, with the catchy headline 'This Fall Is Really Going To Hurt.' We later found out t ... More >>

Community Gardens Fear Wilting Under Massive Cuts in Federal Block-Grant Money

Growing dissent: Urban gardeners besiege City Hall​By Adrian Fussell Looming federal budget cuts mean that community gardens across New York City will likely face a severe, life-threatening drought. And the seeds of protest are already sprouting. Supporters of GreenThumb, the city's primary comm ... More >>

Slumlords and Your Tax Dollars

​AM New York had an interesting piece yesterday about a topic that's near and dear to us over here at Runnin' Scared: taxpayer dollars that end up in the pockets of slumlords. The paper, using data from Public Advocate Bill DeBlasio's office, reported that a beleaguered city program which pro ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo Goes to Albany, Where Lobbyists Are Waiting

When Rick Lazio Loved Andy Cuomo

By Scott Greenberg Speaking earlier this month about Andrew Cuomo's 1997-2000 tenure at HUD, gubernatorial rival Rick Lazio blasted him: "He was the head of an agency that was the worst-rated agency in the federal government, which is really saying something." That's the exact opposite of what Laz ... More >>

Adolfo Carrion Comes Back to NYC, but Maybe Not the Way He Wanted To

​Former Bronx borough president Adolfo Carrion, who left city politics to become the first director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs, is coming home via another federal gig. Carrion will be leaving his current job to become the regional director of New York and New Jersey for HUD. W ... More >>

City to cover (some) revoked Section 8 vouchers

New York's Department of Homeless Services has announced plans to cover, at least temporarily, the cost of more than half of the $800 housing vouchers the city announced plans to default on yesterday. Homeless Services Commissioner Rob Hess says that the city will cover immediate rent costs for 1, ... More >>

Merry Pranksters in The Yes Men Fix the World, Plus (the Not-So-Merry) Bronson

Jack Kemp, 1935-2009

When Jack Kemp -- the former Buffalo Bills star, Congressman, HUD Secretary, and Republican Vice Presidential candidate, who died of cancer this weekend -- was derided at a function as a mere football player, his daughter retorted, "My daddy wasn't a football player: He was a quarterback." Kemp wa ... More >>

Crime Un-Stoppers: Times Says DAs Flubbed Mortgage Scams

New York City prosecutors remained asleep at the switch while mortgage rip-off artists took huge bites out of the Big Apple, reports The Times's Michael Powell this morning in a great top-of-the fold read.Almost a decade after HUD declared the city a foreclosure fraud "hot zone" and schemesters bega ... More >>

Bush Revokes Land Fraudster's 1-Day-Old Pardon

America New York is Back!

Carrion Finally Appointed to Federal Office

McCain Suggests Andrew Cuomo for SEC; "Hell No" Says Reason

Letters 8.20.08

Andrew Cuomo and Fannie and Freddie

How the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history gave birth to the mortgage crisis

Street Homelessness on the Decline, Bloomberg Says

Why Are There 1,723 Vacant Buildings in Manhattan?

Sins of the Father

Rev. Louis Gigante, kin to the Genovese crime family, slips from hero to slumlord

Cuomo and Me: What, No Handshake?

Mark Green's Three Questions

Andrew Cuomo's $2 Million Man

How the Attorney General wannabe turned an accused slumlord into a sugar daddy

Your Turn: Living in Landlord Hell?

HUD

'The No. 1 worst in the United States'

Black Out

New Orleans getting more white? Sure, by locking out African Americans

Campaigns Duel Over Digs

Wealth

When I came in, there were cockroaches all over. I was crying.

Bush to Rebuild New Orleans, Somehow

President throws expensive bag of gimmicks at Katrina disaster

Harlem Complex Endangered as Federal Subsidy Expires

The New Bronx Market

After Neighborhood Turnaround, HUD Seeks to Cash Out

Rabbi Bunco

An Ally of Senators and Mayors Is Charged With Fraud

Loan Wolves

Congress Preys on Local Subprime-Lending Protections

A Perfect Storm

It's Residents Out, Homeless Families in at Troubled Complex

Rebuilding at Ground Zero

Will Any of the Possibilities Really Be Considered?

SRO Limbo

After Arrests in the HUD Scandal, Will Its Victims Lose Their Homes?

Three-Bedroom Row House

Mel Blank

Bush’s Housing Secretary Martinez Is a Great Unknown

New York’s Bush Boys

Pataki, Sweeney, Powers, Fossella to Prosper in Dubya Reign

Let Us Prey

One Church in the HUD Rehab-Loan Scandal Says It Was a Lamb Led to the Slaughter

Spit-Shining a Scandal

The Chilly Victims of the HUD Housing Scam Listen to Some Hot Air

Seduced and Abandoned

What HUD Knew—and Didn’t Do—About the Mortgage-Loan Scandal

HUD: The Horror Movie

A Big Fish Fries the Little Fish in Harlem-Brooklyn Mortgage Scam

In 'Voluntary' Servitude

Tenants Vow to Boycott Lazio's Law

Education Supplement Listings

Home Breaker: Doing Community Disservice

Lazio’s Housing Bill Was So Bad It Made D'Amato Seem Reasonable

Hillary’s Anti-Union, Slumlord Pals

Reviled Realtors–Nursing Home Operators Raising Funds for Campaign

Letters

Unwelcome Mat

New Public Housing Rules Shun the Poorest New Yorkers

Rudy's Inner Child

The Mayor's Temper Costs ACORN Contract