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**__History of HUD__** In 1965 the Department of Housing and Urban Development was created as a cabinet-level agency. A year later in 1966 on January 18, Robert C. Weaver became the first HUD Secretary. HUD was created as a result of the US Housing Act of 1937 and this department is still going strong today.

The main Goal of HUD is to coordinate and administer programs that provide assistance for housing and community development. The department assists in finding solutions to the problems of housing and urban development through state, local, or private action.
 * __Mission Statement of HUD__**

The Department of Housing and Urban Development spends there money on many different things, but most of its budget goes to direct loans, providing housing subsidies, insuring mortgages and promoting and enforcing equal housing opportunity.
 * __Budget__**

__**Current Leaders of HUD**:__ Secretary Housing and Urban Development || Chief of Staff || Deputy Chief of Staff || Senior Advisor for Mortgage Finance || White House Liaison || Chief Executive Officer || General Counselor || Deputy General Counsel for Operations || Assistant Secretary Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner || Deputy Assistant Secretary for Finance and Budget ||
 * [|**Shaun Donovan**]
 * || Laurel Blatchford
 * || Anna Marie Argilagos
 * || William Apgar
 * || Eureka   Gilkey
 * || Marcella E. Belt
 * Ron SimsDeputy Secretary ||
 * Helen Kanovsky
 * || Linda M. Cruciani
 * [|**Brian Montgomery**]
 * || Ronald Spraker

__**Article's dealing with HUD**__ __SECRETARIES CHU AND DONOVAN SIGN AGREEMENT TO HELP WORKING FAMILIES WEATHERIZE THEIR HOMES__, created May 6, 2009, By Andrea Mead.  The Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, and the secretary of the Department of Energy teamed up together to create federal weatherization programs. The programs should make it easier for lower income families to weatherize their homes and create thousands of new green jobs. __Funding renews critical lifeline for hundreds of persons at risk for homelessness__, created May 8, 2009, by Brian Sullivan. [] Seven programs helping low-income persons with AIDS of HIV are being given 8 million dollars in grants by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

__ CDBG funding designed to build critical infrastructure and create jobs, __ created May 5, 2009, by Andrea Mead. [] The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development allocated 1 billion dollars in funding to stimulate community development and job growth. The money would go to nearly 1200 state and local governments through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.