HUD Secretary Ben Carson reassured employees about the cuts under consideration, which would target community development block grants, public housing money.

By Jennifer C. Kerr, Associated Press

Homeownership vouchers would help the new Housing and Urban Development secretary reduce poverty and also use government resources more efficiently.

By Robert Lerman

As part of a NewsHour series on post-Hurricane Katrina housing in New Orleans, Betty Ann Bowser interviewed former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Alphonso Jackson about options for displaced public housing residents.

George W. Bush has selected Mel Martinez, the Cuban-born chairman of Orange County, Florida, to serve as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.