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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan announced that more than 3,800 children are safe from dangerous lead-based paint hazards and other health and safety risks due to grants from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and HUD’s Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control.

Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program is using $1.5 billion to help more than 300,000 households

WASHINGTON – U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan announced today that homelessness for 750,000 Americans was prevented or ended, thanks to HUD’s Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP), funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The program provided $1.5 billion to local communities to keep families in their homes or help them find other affordable housing after a sudden financial crisis, which might have otherwise led to homelessness. 

Awards Providing Energy Efficient Upgrades to Nearly 20,000 Homes

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan announced a Recovery Act milestone for the Department’s Green Retrofit Program: 100 percent of the program’s $250 million in grants and loans has been obligated by the September 30, 2010, statutory deadline, marking a significant achievement for a program that was created only eighteen months ago.