Browsing by Subject "HUD"

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Community Indicators: Improving Community Management, PRP 6
(LBJ School of Public Affairs, 1974) Lineberry, Robert L.; Shoemaker, Paul E.; Mandel, Allan S.
Creative financing & strategies for mixed-income transit oriented development in Dallas, Texas
(2013-08) Partovi, Lauren Neda; Wilson, Barbara B. (Barbara Brown)
This study evaluates the current environment for mixed-income transit oriented development along DART rail within the city limits of Dallas. A close look at income and racial disparity is used as the foundation for advocating for a more proactive and aggressive approach to the development of affordable units proximate to affordable transportation choices. Assembling financing for mixed-income TOD projects is especially challenging, and multiple layers of federal, state, and city funding mechanisms are required for achieving the capital requirements of the development. Both typical affordable housing funding methods and new and nontraditional funding methods for multifamily housing were researched and evaluated with the intention to propose possibilities for catalyzing development in DART station areas within the City of Dallas that have, to this point, experienced underdevelopment.
Equity evaluation in HUD disaster recovery programs
(2022-08-10) Beaty, Sidney Talbott; Mueller, Elizabeth J.; Wong, Patrick, 1956-
Natural disasters are occurring with increasing frequency and intensity. Low-income residents of color are more likely to live in areas impacted by disasters and often have reduced capacity to prepare for, cope with, and recover from disasters. The federal government, which provides billions of dollars for disaster recovery through a patchwork of federal programs, does not consistently administer programs in an equitable manner. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) administers the primary sources of funding for long-term disaster recovery and resiliency, the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) and Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) programs. The Fair Housing Act and other federal provisions require HUD and its grantees to administer disaster recovery funding in a nondiscriminatory manner. However, many CDBG-DR and CDBG-MIT programs have been accused of failing to provide funding to the areas that need it most. This paper examines the CDBG-DR and CDBG-MIT programs in Texas following Hurricanes Ike and Harvey through an equity framework that considers contextual, procedural, and distributive equity. It concludes with recommendations for HUD and Congress based on the Texas cases that will improve equitable outcomes for CDBG-DR and CDBG-MIT programs. The recommendations focus on the need for a more stable federal framework and stronger requirements for measurements of community needs and program impacts.