Friday news roundup 4/4/14

On Wednesday HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan testified at a House appropriations subcommittee hearing on the proposed 2015 budget for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). If you wish to watch or listen to the hearing, you’ll find a link to audio and video coverage on this Web page. You can read a summary of the hearing from the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) here.

HUD: Fair Housing Month to mark the passage of the 1968 Fair Housing Act

The HUDdle: How the Affordable Care Act is helping HUD combat homelessness

MetroTrends: What would it take to end family homelessness?

NeighborWorks: Dorothy Richardson legacy extends to next generation

NCSHA: There is no state in the nation where a full-time minimum wage worker can afford a one-bedroom or two-bedroom apartment renting for HUD’s FMR

Next City: The demolition of the Calliope, which housed more than 4,000 people before Hurricane Katrina, was part of a highly controversial effort after the storm to redevelop all of the city’s traditional housing projects

NLIHC: How Utah advocates used Out of Reach data to support legislation for raising the state minimum wage

Off the Charts: Ryan budget mischaracterizes housing vouchers, then sets the stage to cut them

Planetizen: A new paper published in the Urban Studies journal finds a weak, negative relationship between vouchers and violent crime rates

Rooflines: How affordable housing developers deal with community opposition

Urban Institute: In the 1990s and early 2000s, the Department of Housing and Urban Development sponsored two major experiments to test whether housing choice vouchers propelled low-income households into greater economic security