June 2009 Bulletins

Obama Eyeing Order for Gitmo Detainees

Released 6/27/09 by Military.Com

The White House is considering issuing an executive order to imprison a small number of Guantanamo Bay detainees. No final decisions have been made about the order, which would be the fourth major mandate by President Barack Obama to deal with how the United States treats and prosecutes terror suspects and foreign fighters. Full release

Marquez confirmed as HUD Assistant Secretary

Released 6/26/09 by HUD

WASHINGTON - Mercedes Marquez was unanimously confirmed as an Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. As the former general manager of the City of Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD), Marquez will lead HUD's Office of Community Planning and Development which administers nearly $8 billion in programs designed to stimulate community development, affordable housing, as well as a variety of special needs assistance programs. Full release

HUD Secretary announces disaster assistance for Kansas storm victims

Released 6/26/09 by HUD

WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 28 storm-ravaged counties in Kansas and provide support to homeowners and low-income renters forced from their homes due to severe storms, flooding, straight-line winds, and tornadoes. Full release

HUD Secretary Donovan encourages communities, developers to build energy-efficient, affordable housing

Released 6/25/09 by HUD

WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today encouraged a gathering of public housing officials, energy experts, developers and architects to continue exploring innovative practices to build energy-efficient, affordable housing and communities through HUD's HOPE VI Revitalization program. Full release

HUD Secretary announces disater assistance for Missouri storm victims

Released 6/22/09 by HUD

WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 46 storm-ravaged counties in Missouri and provide support to homeowners and low-income renters forced from their homes following last month's severe storms, flooding, and tornadoes. Full release

HUD Secretary announces assistance for Oklahoma wildfire victims

Released 6/22/09 by HUD

WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to nine counties in Oklahoma and provide support to homeowners and low-income renters forced from their homes following this spring's wildfires. Full release

HUD to offer housing assistance to 4,000 Americans with disabilities

Released 6/22/09 by HUD

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today joined President Obama's commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Supreme Court's Olmstead decision by announcing that it will offer rental assistance to 4,000 non-elderly families with disabilities, including 1,000 vouchers specifically targeted to those transitioning out of nursing homes and other care facilities. Through its funding notice, HUD is seeking comment from public housing authorities and others to ensure this critically needed assistance is distributed and administered in the most effective manner possible. Full release

Letter Rekindles Man's Memory of His Father

Released 6/21/09 by Military.Com

All these years Terry Miklos has held onto that old Simpsons' Leader Times article from 1945 about his father and uncle, two Ford City Soldier brothers reuniting in France, that has in it what his uncle wrote home to their parents. Reading it again reminds him this upcoming Father's Day of what his father has meant to him. Full release

Sandra Henriquez sworn in as Assistant Secretary for HUD's Office of Public and Indian Housing

Released 6/19/09 by HUD

WASHINGTON - Sandra Brooks Henriquez was sworn in today as the Assistant Secretary for the Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Henriquez will oversee the nation's public housing and rental assistance programs that assist approximately 3.2 million low-income families across the U.S. She will also be responsible for HUD's Native American and Native Hawaiian programs, which serves 562 federally recognized tribes. Full release

HUD offers $4 million for Healthy Homes research

Released 6/19/09 by HUD

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced that $4 million is available to improve methods to detect and control lead-based paint, mold and other housing-related safety hazards that harm children. These grants will be awarded competitively to multiple Academic and non-profit institutions, State, Tribal or local governments that advance the recognition and control of residential health and safety hazards or improve our understanding of the link between housing and health. Full release

Secretaries Shinseki and Donovan host first meeting of the U.S. Interagency Council on homelessness under the Obama Administration

Released 6/18/09 by HUD

WASHINGTON - The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) met today for the first time under the Obama Administration. U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki chaired the meeting, at which U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan was elected rotating Chair for the upcoming year and U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis was elected Vice Chair. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Melody Barnes, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, attended the meeting. Full release

HUD secretary announces disaster assistance for Arkansas storm victims

Released 6/17/09 by HUD

WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 37 storm-ravaged counties in Arkansas and provide support to homeowners and low-income renters forced from their homes due to ongoing severe storms and flooding. Full release

HUD secretary announces disaster assistance for South Dakota storm victims

Released 6/17/09 by HUD

WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 14 storm-ravaged counties in South Dakota and provide support to homeowners and low-income renters forced from their homes due to ongoing severe storms and flooding. Full release