Archive for December, 2011

Today, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development released the report “Federal Rental Alignment: Administrative Proposals” which lays out a broad vision for improving the delivery and operation of affordable housing across the country. The initiatives in this report – many of which are already being implemented – will streamline federal housing requirements to support more efficient delivery of affordable housing, and help state and federal agencies’ staff to better serve low-income families who rent their homes. The Administration's goal is to make government work better by reducing the unintended consequences associated with the reality of housing finance today – multiple overlapping public investments on a given rental property. 

The report includes ten initiatives proposed by the Rental Policy Working Group that will …

President Barack Obama has paid homage at the memorial marking the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour 70 years ago, which pitched the United States into the Second World War.

John Avlon says Romney and his wife portray him as a lover of comedy, but he's been careful not to cite any forms of humor newer than 50 years old.

U.S. President Barack Obama has agreed to delay submitting a debt ceiling increase request to allow lawmakers time to consider it while they are in session, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Friday.

“We have been asked by the bicameral…

President Barack Obama will return to his Chicago hometown on Jan. 11 to attend raise money for his presidential campaign.

Obama’s campaign says the president will attend two fundraisers at the homes of Fred Eychaner (Eye-can-er), a Chicago media mogul,…

John Avlon says onerous ballot rules, like those that kept Gingrich, Perry and others off the Virginia ballot, demean democracy and disenfranchise voters.

President Obama did Thursday what every President since Franklin D. Roosevelt has done — visited the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Mitt Romney's refusal to release his income-tax return became the object of national Democrats' indignation Friday with the release of a web video accusing the GOP hopeful of breaking with a longstanding political tradition.