Biden announces initiatives to expand solar power access and create jobs
New Biden administration guidelines could help provide cheaper solar energy to 4.5 million families.
By Oliver Willis - July 28, 2022New Biden administration guidelines could help provide cheaper solar energy to 4.5 million families.
By Oliver Willis - July 28, 2022Black children and families are more likely than white families to suffer from the effects of lead poisoning.
By Oliver Willis - June 17, 2022Under former President Donald Trump, several attempts were made to cut funding to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Fair Housing Initiatives Program.
By Oliver Willis - April 07, 2022Studies show that racial disparities in home value estimates are ‘pervasive’ and have led to hundreds of billions of dollars in lost value in Black and Latino communities.
By Oliver Willis - March 23, 2022‘If you are a religiously affiliated entity and you are providing housing, you can say we’re an evangelical college and we will only allow evangelicals to live in our dorm, but that doesn’t give you a free pass to discriminate,’ said an attorney with Lambda Legal.
By Casey Quinlan - May 24, 2021‘Access to safe, stable housing — and shelter — is a basic necessity,’ said Housing Secretary Marcia Fudge.
By Associated Press - April 23, 2021The White House said, ‘President Biden is committed to taking a whole-of-government approach to advancing LGBTQ+ equality.’
By Casey Quinlan - March 12, 2021‘Housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity demands urgent enforcement action,’ said a Biden official.
By Casey Quinlan - February 11, 2021The Biden transition team includes a lot of experienced, and out, LGBTQ staffers.
By Casey Quinlan - November 12, 2020The administration has taken a piecemeal approach, experts say, continuing to target transgender Americans following the historic ruling.
By Casey Quinlan - September 03, 2020Without stable housing, many struggle to get the health care they need.
By Lisa Needham - August 05, 2020The Department of Housing and Urban Development is revoking a policy meant to diversify the suburbs.
By Emily Singer - July 23, 2020The rule would allow staff to use factors such as facial hair and height in deciding whether to admit people into homeless shelters.
By Casey Quinlan - July 20, 2020The Trump administration is moving forward with a rule change that would allow discrimination against homeless transgender people.
By Casey Quinlan - July 02, 2020Trump said he wants to nix an Obama-era regulation designed to desegregate suburban housing.
By Emily Singer - July 01, 2020Nearly 40% have had their work hours reduced and 14% have asked for delays in making rent payments.
By Casey Quinlan - May 22, 2020LGBTQ health and shelter services are strained to their limits.
By Casey Quinlan - May 06, 2020‘More resources need to be available to help people pay their rent and utilities’ amid the raging coronavirus outbreak, one tenant advocate says.
By Josh Israel - March 31, 2020The Trump administration said local governments are overburdened by an Obama-era rule intended to ensure communities confront racial segregation in housing.
By Associated Press - January 07, 2020His vow to end ‘American carnage’ has been replaced with criticism of the Democratic officials from those same cities.
By Josh Israel - October 28, 2019Carson made some transphobic comments while visiting HUD’s San Francisco office. His clarification didn’t make things any better.
By Lisa Needham - September 23, 2019Trump says he wants to solve the problem of homelessness in California, but what he really wants to do is bash a blue state.
By Lisa Needham - September 19, 2019Rep. Jennifer Wexton said Carson’s testimony was both ‘deceitful’ and ‘inept.’
By Dan Desai Martin - May 23, 2019He acted like he had never heard of a term that’s a basic part of his job.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 21, 2019The Government Accountability Office ruled that Carson’s pricey dining room set violated the law.
By Emily Singer - May 17, 2019A plan to evict undocumented immigrants from their housing would also throw 55,000 American citizens onto the streets.
By Emily Singer - May 10, 2019Ben Carson got called out for his evasive answers about bigotry.
By Oliver Willis - April 04, 2019New York City firefighters had to rescue Housing and Urban Development official Lynne Patton from a broken down elevator at a public housing project in Manhattan.
By Emily Singer - February 19, 2019