HUD’s new priorities, Gavin Newsom’s financial benefactors and a pair of high-profile acquisition stories – one genuine, one not. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of March 10-14. Hit: DEI is DOA. Kudos to Housing...
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has temporarily rejected a draft action plan submitted by the City of Asheville, North Carolina, because it proposed using Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) criteria for distributing Hurricane Helene disaster...
A fair housing rule that was enacted during the Obama administration, then rescinded in the first Trump administration, then restored in the Biden administration, has been rescinded again by the second Trump administration. Department of Housing and Urban Development...
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee, is demanding an emergency hearing to examine layoffs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In a letter to the Committee’s chairman, Rep. French Hill (R-AR),...
HUD’s erasure of DEI contracts, builders expressing apprehension and Australia’s first rate cut in more than four years. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of Feb. 17-21. Hit: An End to DEI Daffiness. Kudos to...