DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Department of Housing and Urban Development.The cabinet-level department of the federal
government responsible for overseeing programs that are concerned with housing needs and
fair-housing opportunities, and with improving and developing the nation’s communities. • It was
established in 1965 by the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act. 42 USCA §§
3532–3537. It is headed by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. — Abbr. HUD.
[Cases: United States 82(3). C.J.S. United States § 159.] [Blacks Law 8th]