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Tents are set up along a freeway in a homeless encampment Monday, May 12, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

‘Obvious fraud’: Trump administration suspends funding for Los Angeles homeless agency

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

FILE - Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner, walks towards the West Wing following a TV interview at the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Trump administration looks to slash HUD workers tackling the housing crisis

By Sally Ho and Jesse Bedayn - Associated Press

FILE- In this May 18, 2012, file photo a television photographer shoots the sign outside of Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook has settled five lawsuits alleging that its advertising systems could be used to enable discrimination in housing, credit and employment ads, checking off one problem from its list of many. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Facebook facing housing discrimination charges from HUD

Associated Press

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks to members of Texas and Southwestern border sheriffs, who were holding their convention in Las Cruces, N.M., Wednesday, April 11, 2018. (Josh Bachman/The Las Cruces Sun News via AP)

DOJ, HUD launch joint task force to target landlords sexually harassing tenants

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro (left) announces that nearly $60 million in grants have been awarded to tribal communities across the nation during a news conference Oct. 6 in Anchorage, Alaska. Sen. Mark Begich, Alaska Democrat, listens at right. (Associated Press)

HUD gives free housing to 200K unqualified tenants, report

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro (left) announces that nearly $60 million in grants have been awarded to tribal communities across the nation during a news conference Oct. 6 in Anchorage, Alaska. Sen. Mark Begich, Alaska Democrat, listens at right. (Associated Press)

HUD still calculating fraudster’s damages

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro (left) announces that nearly $60 million in grants have been awarded to tribal communities across the nation during a news conference Oct. 6 in Anchorage, Alaska. Sen. Mark Begich, Alaska Democrat, listens at right. (Associated Press)

Former HUD loan official who slipped through vetting process is sentenced to 2 years in prison

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

HUD scammer seeks credit for revealing crime

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

U.S. Attorney Ron Machen (above) called Brian Thompson "a crooked HUD employee" who "diverted the proceeds of real estate sales from the U.S. Treasury to his own pockets through lies and trickery." (Associated Press)

Background check fails as ex-convict lands HUD job, embezzles $800,000

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

Maurice Jones speaks after Virginia Gov.-elect Terry McAuliffe, right, introduced him as nominee for secretary of commerce and trade at news conference at the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce in Richmond Va., Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014.(AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Mark Gormus)

McAuliffe Cabinet official violated anti-lobbying rules: watchdog

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

Public housing soon back in New Orleans’ hands

Associated Press

A screen grab from the 1999 movie 'Office Space.'

Federal workers hold on to jobs despite blatant misconduct

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

The Rev. Al Sharpton speaks at a news conference in White Plains, N.Y., on Thursday, April 24, 2014. Sharpton says unless Republican candidate Rob Astorino, the Westchester county executive, quickly complies with federal demands, &quot;We will accompany him all over the state ... to remind him that his commitment is to live up to what the agreement is.&quot; HUD and the Department of Justice say Westchester has not complied with the terms of a 2009 agreement that settled a housing desegregation lawsuit. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald)

Sharpton may protest Astorino’s NY campaign

By JIM FITZGERALD - Associated Press

Before Maurice Jones was named by Virginia Gov.-elect Terry McAuliffe as secretary of commerce and trade, he was suspected of improper lobbying. (Richmond) Times Dispatch Via Associated Press

Terry McAuliffe’s commerce secretary, Maurice Jones, is under federal investigation

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

Franco Ciammachilli (right) of Washington waves a rainbow flag, a symbol of gay pride, behind supporters of traditional marriage outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington as the justices began hearing two days of arguments in cases involving gay marriage on March 26, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times) **FILE**

HUD finds small amount of anti-gay discrimination in housing

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Stimulus recipients urged to tout plan

By Ben Conery - The Washington Times