John Trasviña is HUD’s Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity There are many questions housing providers will ask you when it comes to renting an apartment, buying a home, or applying for a mortgage. “Are you Hispanic?” shouldn’t be one of them. The law is clear – you can’t be treated differently based [...]
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Imagine these scenarios: A veteran who can’t access his apartment because he’s in a wheelchair. A couple with a foreign nationality who is denied housing because of how they look. A Black child whose family is told they have to look in another neighborhood where they might be “more comfortable.” Think these situations are a [...]
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American families are all too familiar with the story: just when they thought they had achieved the dream of owning their own home, abuses in the financial and mortgage sector came back to haunt them and sent them spiralling into foreclosure – often through no fault of their own. Countless other families are still struggling [...]
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During his State of the Union address last night, President Obama spoke about the creation of task force that will dig deeper into questionable lending practices. “President Obama announced Tuesday the creation of a task force aimed at investigating the shoddy mortgage-lending practices that contributed to the financial collapse of 2008 and the housing crisis that [...]
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Have a question about buying a home, rental assistance or foreclosure but English is not your first language? HUD can help with its new HUD Language Line, a live telephone interpretation service that will allow HUD staff to converse with the public in almost any language. To help HUD staff better communicate with Limited English [...]
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