Department of Housing and Urban Development

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

451 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20410

Phone, 202-708-1422. Internet, www.hud.gov.

SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Alphonso R. Jackson

Deputy Secretary Roy A. Bernardi

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Aronetta J. Baylor

Policy and Management

Director, Office of Small and (vacancy)

Disadvantaged Business Utilization

Director, Office of Hearings and (vacancy)

Appeals

Assistant Secretary for Administration Keith A. Nelson

Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Pamela H. Patenaude

Development

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Office of Robert M. Couch, General Counsel Acting

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for L. Carter Cornick

Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations

Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Kim Kendrick

Opportunity

Assistant Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing Brian D. Montgomery

Commissioner

Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Darlene F. Williams

Research

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Jennifer Nordquist

Affairs

Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Orlando J. Cabrera

Housing

Director, Office of Departmental Equal (vacancy)

Employment Opportunity

Chief Financial Officer John W. Cox

Director, Office of Departmental Operations and Inez Banks-Dubose

Coordination

Director, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Mike Hill, Acting

Hazard Control

Director, Center for Faith-Based and Community (vacancy)

Initiatives

Inspector General Kenneth M. Donahue, Sr.

President, Government National Mortgage Robert M. Couch

Association

Chief Information Officer Lisa Schlosser

Chief Procurement Officer Joseph A. Neurauter

Director, Office of Federal Housing Enterprise (vacancy)

Oversight

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The Department of Housing and Urban Development is the principal Federal agency responsible for programs concerned with the Nation's housing needs, fair housing opportunities, and improvement and development of the Nation's communities.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was established in

1965 by the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act (42 U.S.C.

3532-3537). It was created to:

--administer the principal programs that provide assistance for housing and for the development of the Nation's communities;

--encourage the solution of housing and community development problems through States and localities; and

--encourage the maximum contributions that may be made by vigorous private homebuilding and mortgage lending industries, both primary and secondary, to housing, community development, and the national economy.

Although HUD administers many programs, its major functions may be grouped into six categories:

--insuring mortgages for single-family and multi-family dwellings, and extending loans for home improvement and for purchasing mobile homes;

--channeling funds from investors into the mortgage industry through the Government National Mortgage Association;

--making direct loans for construction or rehabilitation of housing projects for the elderly and the handicapped;

--providing Federal housing subsidies for low- and moderate-income families;

--providing grants to States and communities for community development activities; and

--promoting and enforcing fair housing and equal housing opportunity.

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