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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    November 10, 2010

    Andrew Cuomo Goes to Albany, Where Lobbyists Are Waiting

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    Staten Island's Taza Churros Is a Storefront Shrine to Latin Donuts

    ​ Being passed over for a job can lead a man to make drastic decisions. For Martin Olsen, the result was Taza Churros, a bathroom-sized Latin donuts shop he owns with his younger brother Miguel Llinas in the Port Richmond section of Staten Island. A low-income housing counselor by day, Olsen ... More >>

  • Film

    October 6, 2009

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

    ​ Being passed over for a job can lead a man to make drastic decisions. For Martin Olsen, the result was Taza Churros, a bathroom-sized Latin donuts shop he owns with his younger brother Miguel Llinas in the Port Richmond section of Staten Island. A low-income housing counselor by day, Olsen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    America New York is Back!

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2008

    Carrion Finally Appointed to Federal Office

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • News

    August 19, 2008

    Letters 8.20.08

    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 >>

  • News

    August 5, 2008

    Andrew Cuomo and Fannie and Freddie

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

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2008

    Street Homelessness on the Decline, Bloomberg Says

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

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2007

    Why Are There 1,723 Vacant Buildings in Manhattan?

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

  • News

    January 16, 2007

    Sins of the Father

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

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2006

    Cuomo and Me: What, No Handshake?

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

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2006

    Mark Green's Three Questions

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

  • News

    August 29, 2006

    Andrew Cuomo's $2 Million Man

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

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2006

    Your Turn: Living in Landlord Hell?

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

  • NYC Life

    June 27, 2006

    HUD

    'The No. 1 worst in the United States'

  • News

    November 29, 2005

    Black Out

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

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2005

    Campaigns Duel Over Digs

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

  • NYC Life

    October 11, 2005

    Wealth

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

  • News

    September 13, 2005

    Bush to Rebuild New Orleans, Somehow

    President throws expensive bag of gimmicks at Katrina disaster

  • News

    February 10, 2004

    Harlem Complex Endangered as Federal Subsidy Expires

    President throws expensive bag of gimmicks at Katrina disaster

  • News

    September 23, 2003

    The New Bronx Market

    After Neighborhood Turnaround, HUD Seeks to Cash Out

  • News

    September 2, 2003

    Rabbi Bunco

    An Ally of Senators and Mayors Is Charged With Fraud

  • News

    January 28, 2003

    Loan Wolves

    Congress Preys on Local Subprime-Lending Protections

  • News

    October 15, 2002

    A Perfect Storm

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

  • News

    February 12, 2002

    Rebuilding at Ground Zero

    Will Any of the Possibilities Really Be Considered?

  • News

    January 29, 2002

    Amnesty Threat

    Housing Authority Asks Residents to Fess Up and Pay

  • News

    January 15, 2002

    SRO Limbo

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

  • NYC Life

    August 7, 2001

    Three-Bedroom Row House

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

  • News

    February 6, 2001

    Mel Blank

    Bush’s Housing Secretary Martinez Is a Great Unknown

  • News

    January 23, 2001

    New York’s Bush Boys

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

  • News

    January 23, 2001

    Let Us Prey

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

  • News

    January 23, 2001

    Spit-Shining a Scandal

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

  • News

    January 16, 2001

    Seduced and Abandoned

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

  • News

    January 9, 2001

    HUD: The Horror Movie

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

  • News

    September 12, 2000

    In 'Voluntary' Servitude

    Tenants Vow to Boycott Lazio's Law

  • Art

    August 1, 2000

    Education Supplement Listings

    Tenants Vow to Boycott Lazio's Law

  • News

    June 6, 2000

    Home Breaker: Doing Community Disservice

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

  • News

    December 14, 1999

    Hillary’s Anti-Union, Slumlord Pals

    Reviled Realtors–Nursing Home Operators Raising Funds for Campaign

  • Specials

    November 2, 1999

    Letters

    Reviled Realtors–Nursing Home Operators Raising Funds for Campaign

  • News

    October 12, 1999

    Unwelcome Mat

    New Public Housing Rules Shun the Poorest New Yorkers

  • News

    October 28, 1997

    Rudy's Inner Child

    The Mayor's Temper Costs ACORN Contract

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