HUD’s Push to Privatize Public Housing Parallels Rise of HOA Land
guest blog by Deborah Goonan
Although not widely reported in the news, Federal and local governments, working with private investors, have created a yet another privatization plan to “save” Affordable Housing in America. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has begun a pilot program known as Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD), which they claim promises to preserve our dwindling, aging stock of Public Housing, much of it constructed in the 1960s and 1970s.
