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1:   (PUBLIC HOUSING) PETRA Remains HUD Priority : Despite congressional opposition and intense criticism from several housing industry advocacy groups, HUD officials intend to pursue their effort to get legislative approval for the proposed 07/23/2010 12:54 PM

2:   (OMBUDSMAN OUSTED) HUD Ombudsman Ousted : Complaints from female HUD employees lead to the ouster of Jerry W. Jones Jr., ombudsman and director of the department's Alternative Dispute Resolution Div. in the Office of Departmental 06/25/2010 1:08 PM

3:   (PUBLICITY) New HUD Publicity Machine Created : Unhappy with how the media portrays HUD, officials decide to take the department's message directly to the public through the various new social media outlets, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube 06/18/2010 12:54 PM

4:   (RENTAL OVERHAUL) PETRA Push Fizzles With Media : HUD executives summoned reporters covering the department to a phone press conference to extol the virtues of the proposed Preservation, Enhancement & Transforming Rental Assistance 06/18/2010 12:27 PM

5:   (COMPUTER GLITCH) SAGIS Snafu Snarls Submissions : Public housing authorities in Iowa, Kansas and Missouri were stymied during the May 13-16 weekend when their 2010 plans for HUD subsidies for the calendar year disappeared in the 05/21/2010 12:56 PM

6:   (URBAN AFFAIRS) Carrion Departure Under Cloud : Adolfo Carrion's move down from White House urban czar to head HUD's New York regional office has political heads nodding in the nation's capital and in New York. The official rumor is Carrion 05/07/2010 1:18 PM

7:   (TRANSFORMING HUD) Shakeup In HUD Housing Office : HUD has begun to rearrange its deck chairs and a personnel shuffle is underway. Careerists hired into the department during Republican administrations will take a back seat to those hired 04/23/2010 12:37 PM

8:   (HUD REGION) Blatchford Hinted For Region Post : HUD's rumor mill is hot with the hint that Secy. Shaun Donovan's chief of staff, Laurel Blatchford, is a top prospect to head HUD's New York regional office. Blatchford was tapped for the HUD position 04/16/2010 12:26 PM

9:   (HUD) Burns Leave HUD For Regulator : Margaret Burns, HUD's director of Single Family Program Development, departs HUD to take a position with the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the regulator for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac 04/16/2010 12:22 PM

10:   (HUD REGION) Housing Veteran Gets HUD Region Nod : HUD Secy. Shaun Donovan taps Ophelia Basgal to serve as the director of the department's Western Region, which includes Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada. Basgal was executive 04/09/2010 12:55 PM

11:   (SPENDING GAP) HUD At Loss On $4B Error : HUD budget planners are scrambling to find at least $4 billion in present program funding to make up for its snafu in calculating Federal Housing Admin. receipts. The amount, which HAL sources 04/02/2010 12:41 PM

12:   (HUD STAFF) HUD Staffers Shortchange Housing : How many public housing units could be properly maintained annually with $4.76 million extra dollars in the HUD budget? At about $2,500 each, nearly 5,000 units would get a simple makeover, 03/26/2010 1:14 PM

13:   (SAGIS) Further Setback In SAGIS Snafu : For the fourth year running, public housing authorities will have to continue submitting their annual budget plans on mounds of paper that were supposed to be eliminated by HUD's Subsidies & Grants 03/26/2010 12:39 PM

14:   (HUD JUNKET) Massive HUD Junket To Brazil : While HUD's rank-and-file workers struggle to cope with a discombobulated computer system, and thousands of public housing authorities struggle to submit a massive deluge of 03/19/2010 1:05 PM

15:   (SNAFU) SAGIS Saga Endures : It has been a week since HUD officials declared that the electronic disaster dubbed the Subsidy & Grants Information System would be up and running "soon." Apparently soon in the HUD lexicon means 02/26/2010 1:09 PM

16:   (SECRETARY) Donovan Appears Out Of Loop : As late as the beginning of February, HUD Secy. Shaun Donovan was declaring that the Obama administration soon would unveil its blueprint for the restoration of government-sponsored enterprises 02/26/2010 1:06 PM

17:   (SAGIS) It's SAGIS Time At HUD Again : Every year for the past three years about this time, HUD puts its Subsidy & Grants Information System into full gear. SAGIS is the multimillion dollar model computer program that is supposed to 02/19/2010 11:48 AM

18:   (HUD) Headquarters Remodeling Set : Despite the spending freeze President Barack Obama wants for three years beginning in FY 2011, HUD officials are intent on a multi-million dollar renovation of the headquarters building in 02/02/2010 3:33 PM

19:   (NON CITIZEN) HUD Chief Buyer Under Scrutiny : Questions about the ability of HUD's Chief Procurement Officer to manage the department's central contracting office has triggered a new look at her background and raised concern her political 01/22/2010 12:51 PM

20:   (SICKNESS) Mystery Bug Hovers At HUD : If you don't have an office window at HUD headquarters in Washington, DC, you apparently are lacking seniority. That has some rank-and-file stomachs churning lately, complaining that 01/15/2010 1:23 PM

21:   (HUD) Henriquez Out In the Cold : When Sandra Henriquez accepted the Obama administration's invitation to become the next HUD assistant secretary of Public and Indian Housing, little did she know what political hornet's nest she 01/15/2010 1:18 PM

22:   (INSIDE HUD) Carrion Builds Mini-HUD Empire : A move by President Barack Obama to create competing constituencies within his administration has veteran HUD executives in turmoil over policy creation and implementation and 12/18/2009 1:10 PM

23:   (ADMINISTRATION) New Operations Chief For HUD : White House officials reach into Pennsylvania's government to tap a new chief operating officer for HUD. Estelle Richman steps down as the state's public welfare director to take the position Jan. 4 12/11/2009 12:37 PM

24:   (COMMUNITIES) NSP Meetings With Donovan Denied : A scheduled Dec. 2 meeting between HUD Secy. Shaun Donovan and 20 community groups from across the country is denied by HUD officials. Sources tell HAL that the groups were allowed at 12/04/2009 1:08 PM

25:   (FHA) FHA Gets Donovan Watchdog : Federal government careerist Joseph Smith will become HUD Secy. Shaun Donovan's eyes and ears inside the Federal Housing Admin. despite emphatic official denials of the move made to HAL more 12/03/2009 1:51 PM

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