Celebrating HUD’s 50th Anniversary

November 11th 2015

In honor of HUD’s 50th anniversary, the agency's Office of Policy Development and Research published a new book: HUD at 50: Pathways to Opportunity. NYU Furman Center Faculty Director Ingrid Gould Ellen and Deputy Director Jessica Yager contributed a chapter to the publication reflecting on race, poverty, and federal rental housing policy.

The chapter examines HUD’s complex and, at times, contradictory goals of “creating and preserving high-quality affordable rental housing, spurring community development, facilitating access to opportunity, combating racial discrimination, and furthering integration through federal housing and urban development policy.” It discusses HUD’s mixed success in fair housing enforcement and examines five key tensions running through all of HUD’s work. 

To access the book, click here.

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