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 Andrew M. Cuomo

Deputy Secretary Saul N. Ramirez, Jr.

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Field Mary E. Madden

Policy and Management

Director, Office of Small and Casimir Bonkowski

Disadvantaged Business Utilization

Chair, HUD Board of Contract Appeals David T. Anderson

and Chief Administrative Judge

Chief Administrative Law Judge Alan W. Heifetz

Assistant Secretary for Administration Joseph F. Smith

Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Cardell Cooper

Development

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Office of Gail W. Laster

General Counsel

Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Hal C. DeCell III

Intergovernmental Relations

Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Eva M. Plaza

Opportunity

Assistant Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing William Apgar

Commissioner

Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and (vacancy)

Research

Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (vacancy)

Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Harold Lucas

Housing

Director, Office of Departmental Equal (vacancy)

Employment Opportunity

Chief Information Officer Gloria R. Parker

Chief Financial Officer (vacancy)

Chief Procurement Officer V. Stephen Carberry

Director, Departmental Enforcement Center Edward Kraus

Director, Departmental Real Estate Assessment David J. LaVoy

Center

Director, Office of Departmental Operations and Frank L. Davis

Coordination

Director, Office of Federal Housing Enterprise (vacancy)

Oversight

Director, Office of Lead Hazard Control David E. Jacobs

Director, Office of Multifamily Housing Ira G. Peppercorn

Assistance Restructuring

Inspector General Susan M. Gaffney

President, Government National Mortgage George S. Anderson

Association

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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 the 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...