HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS RESOURCES
http://www.cbpp.org/
National League of Cities
http://www.nlc.org/ASSETS/492F291196434AA590778DC436167
U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/
The bureau’s population division disseminates data on households and families in the annual Current Population Survey, released in March. The American Community Survey covers the nation as well as states, large counties and cities. The bureau also estimates net international migration for the country, states and counties. The fertility and family statistics branch, at the Suitland, Md., headquarters, provides data on childbearing and more. Contact: public information office, 301.763.3030; pio@census.gov
Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
http://www.ers.usda.gov/emphases/rural/ataglance.htm
The Brookings Institution
http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2007/09newhousing_wats
First Focus
http://www.firstfocus.net/Download/CostNothing.pdf
Communications Coordinator
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Address:
1611 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 400
Washington, DC 20009
Phone:
202.293.5380 x115
E-mail:
barber@cepr.net
Web:
www.cepr.net...
Through research and public education, the nonprofit center promotes democratic debate on economic and social issues. Shawn Fremstad co-directs its Inclusion initiative, which develops policy ideas to foster social and economic inclusion. It focuses on improving job quality, wages and benefits.
Michelle Bazie
Assistant Communications Director
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Address:
820 1st St. NE, Suite 510
Washington, DC 20002
Phone:
202.408.1080
E-mail:
bazie@cbpp.org
Web:
www.cbpp.org...
CBPP conducts research and analysis to inform debates on fiscal policy and to help ensure that the needs of low-income families and individuals are considered. It supports increasing access to supports such as Medicaid, children’s health insurance, food stamps and housing assistance. Senior researcher Arloc Sherman studies the causes and consequences of family and child poverty, trends in income inequality, policies that improve child well-being, and welfare reform. The center publishes state-by-state data on fiscal policies.
Xavier de Souza Briggs
Director and Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning
The Community Problem-Solving Project
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Address:
77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 9-521
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone:
617.253.7956
E-mail:
xbriggs@mit.edu
Web:
http://www.community-problem-solving.net/...
Briggs is an expert on urban neighborhoods as contexts for children and families, race and inequality, housing and community development policy, and local politics and governance.
J. Larry Brown Ph.D.
Executive Director
Center on Hunger and Poverty
Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University
Address:
Mailstop 077
Waltham, MA 02454
Phone:
781.736.8885
E-mail:
jlbrown@brandeis.edu
Web:
http://www.centeronhunger.org/...
The center is an outgrowth of the Harvard-based Physician Task Force on Hunger in America which, during the 1980s, made field visits across the U.S. and released studies on the extent and causes of hunger. Brown, created the center as a vehicle to address not only hunger, but its cause - growing poverty and income inequality in America. The center maintains data on food insecurity: http://www.centeronhunger.org/hunger/state.html.
Maria Cancian
Director
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
Address:
305 Observatory Hill Office Building
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Madison, WI 53706-1211
Phone:
608.263.6633
E-mail:
cancian@lafollette.wisc.edu
Web:
http://www.irp.wisc.edu/home.htm...
IRP is a center for interdisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the U.S. One of three Area Poverty Research Centers sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it has a particular interest in poverty and family welfare in the Midwest. Cancian is also a professor of Social Work and Public Affairs. Her research interests include poverty, welfare and child support policy, and the economic well-being of families with children.
Nancy Cauthen
Deputy Director
National Center for Children in Poverty
Address:
215 W. 125th St., 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10027
Phone:
646.284.9626
E-mail:
cauthen@nccp.org
NCCP is dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and wellbeing of America’s low-income families and children. It seeks to advance family-oriented solutions and the strategic use of public resources at the state and national levels to ensure positive outcomes for the next generation.
Amy Cox Ph.D.
Social Scientist
Center for the Study of Social Welfare Policy
RAND Corporation
Address:
1776 Main St.
Santa Monica, CA 90407
Phone:
310.393.0411, Ext. 6718
E-mail:
cox@rand.org
Greg Duncan Ph.D.
Professor of Education
Department of Education
University of California, Irvine
Address:
Berkeley Place 2062
Irvine, CA 92697-5500
Phone:
949.824.7831
E-mail:
gduncan@uci.edu
Web:
http://www.gse.uci.edu/person/gduncan/gduncan_biog...
Duncan is an expert on family and neighborhood poverty and child development. He formerly worked at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Dunca's research focuses on the effects of poverty on families and neighborhoods, and the intergenerational consequences of welfare use. He has investigated the concentration of persistent poverty among certain population subgroups, in particular African-Americans. Duncan and colleagues also have examined the life consequences for adolescents in families that receive at least partial income from welfare. He has written extensively about income distribution, child poverty and welfare dependence and is the co-author or co-editor of several books. A former principal investigator of the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Duncan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. He was elected president of the Population Association of America for 2008 and president of the Society for Research in Child Development for 2009-2011.
Kathryn Edin Ph.D.
Professor of Public Policy and Management
Kennedy School
Harvard University
Address:
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 19104
Phone:
617.495.2067
E-mail:
kathy_edin@ksg.harvard.edu
Web:
http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/kathryn_edin...
Edin's research focuses on urban poverty and family life, social welfare, public housing, child support and nonmarital childbearing. Her most recent publication (with Paula England), Unmarried Couples with Children, is an analysis of a four-year study of 50 unmarried couples who shared a birth in 2000. Previous publications include the results of a six-year ethnographic study in eight Philadelphia neighborhoods, Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage (with Maria J. Kefalas), and Making Ends Meet: How Low Income Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low Wage Work (with Laura Lein). Her next book is tentatively titled Marginal Men: Fatherhood in the Lives of Low Income Unmarried Men (with Timothy Nelson and Laura Lein). Current projects include a study nested within the interim evaluation of the Moving to Opportunity Experiment, an evaluation of the Gautreaux Two housing mobility program in Chicago, and Investing in Enduring Resources with the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a study of EITC allocation among low-income households in Boston and Central Illinois.
John Edwards
Director
Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity
UNC School of Law
Address:
100 Ridge Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3380
Phone:
919.843.8796
E-mail:
PovertyCenter@unc.edu
Web:
http://www.law.unc.edu/centers/poverty/default.asp...
Led by former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, the center's mission is to examine innovative and practical ideas for moving more Americans out of poverty and into the middle class.
Barbara Ferman Ph.D.
Director
University Community Collaborative of Philadelphia
Temple University
Address:
428 Gladfelter Hall
1115 W. Berks St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone:
215.204.6276
E-mail:
bferman@temple.edu
Web:
http://www.temple.edu/uccp/...
Ferman, a political science professor and Brooklyn native, primarily focuses on urban politics. Her interest in practical applications led her, in 1997, to start the UCCP, which leverages the university's research and pedagogical expertise for larger community ends. With an emphasis on community development and youth civic engagement, the UCCP conducts direct programming, capacity building and applied research in collaboration with community-based and other nonprofit organizations. It addresses issues of housing and community development, neighborhood politics and community organizations, and political leadership and urban public policy.
Lynn Karoly Ph.D.
Senior Economist
Center for the Study of Social Welfare Policy
RAND Corporation
Address:
1200 South Hayes St.
Arlington, VA 22202
Phone:
703.413.1100, Ext. 5359
E-mail:
karoly@rand.org
Web:
http://www.rand.org/news/experts/bios/expert_karol...
Karoly's research has focused on early childhood investments, social welfare policy and U.S. labor markets. She has investigated the costs and benefits of early childhood intervention programs. And other recent research includes: the impact of welfare reform on child and family well-being, and the implications of demographic trends, technological change and globalization for the future U.S. workforce and workplace.
Jeffrey Kling
Deputy Director, Economic Studies Program
The Brookings Institution
Address:
1775 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20036-2118
Phone:
202.797.6304
E-mail:
jkling@brookings.edu
Web:
www.brookings.edu...
Kling’s focus is on economics, social policy, poverty in the U.S. and government expenditure programs. His current projects include housing vouchers and offender re-integration as well as unemployment insurance, Medicare and other aspects of social insurance in the U.S.
Sara McLanahan Ph.D.
Director and Professor
Center for Research on Child Well-Being (CRCW)
Princeton University
Address:
265 Wallace Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone:
609.258.5894
E-mail:
mclanaha@princeton.edu
Web:
http://crcw.princeton.edu/...
CRCW researchers have studied the relationship between earnings, socioeconomic status and child health status, and the effects of child health on parents’ relationship status and ability to work. McLanahan is an expert on single parent families. Her research interests include family demography, poverty and inequality, and social policy.
Joanne Pfleiderer
Director of Communications
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Address:
PO Box 2393
600 Alexander Park
Princeton, NJ 08543
Phone:
609.275.2372
E-mail:
jpfleiderer@mathematica-mpr.com
Web:
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com...
Mathematica conducts public policy research and surveys on health care, education, welfare, employment, nutrition, child development, and other policy issues. The Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) is an affiliate research organization that designs and conducts studies focused on the U.S. health care system.
Kristine Siefert
Associate Director and Professor of Social Work
Center for Poverty, Risk and Mental Health
University of Michigan
Address:
1080 S. University, 2846 SSWB
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone:
734.763.6201
E-mail:
ksiefert@umich.edu
Web:
http://www.ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profile-ksiefert....
Siefert's research investigates social and environmental risk factors for poor health and mental health among low-income women and children in diverse racial and ethnic populations. Recent studies include the impact of household food insufficiency on the physical and mental health of low income women and social and environmental determinants of major depression in low-income women.
Matthew Stagner
Executive Director
Chapin Hall Center for Children
University of Chicago
Address:
1313 E. 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone:
773.753.5900
E-mail:
mstagner@chapinhall.org
Michael Wald
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Emeritus
School of Law
Stanford University
Address:
Crown Quad 215
Stanford, CA 94305
Phone:
650.723.0322
E-mail:
mwald@stanford.edu
Web:
http://www.law.stanford.edu/faculty/wald...
Wald has had a distinguished career as an academic researcher and teacher. A leading national authority on legal policy toward children, he drafted the American Bar Association’s Standards Related to Child Abuse and Neglect, as well as major federal and state legislation regarding child welfare. Wald served as deputy general counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Clinton Administration, executive director of the San Francisco Department of Human Services, and senior adviser to the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
James Weidman
Director
Editorial Services, Communications and Marketing
Heritage Foundation
Address:
214 Massachusetts Ave. NE
Washington, DC 20002
Phone:
202.546.4400
E-mail:
james.weidman@heritage.org
Web:
http://www.heritage.org...
The think tank formulates and promotes conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom and traditional American values. Its domestic research covers economics, education, family and marriage, health care and more.
Communications Director
National Housing Conference
Address:
1801 K St., NW, Suite M-100
Washington, DC 20006-1301
Phone:
202.466.2121 x226
E-mail:
manapol@nhc.org
Web:
www.nhc.org...
The nonprofit, nonpartisan NHC advocates for national policies and legislation that promote suitable housing in a safe, decent environment. Its research affiliate, the Center for Housing Policy, specializes in developing solutions. In October, the center released “Stretched Thin: The Impact of Rising Housing Expenses on America’s Owners and Renters.”
Ellen Bassuk M.D.
President
National Center On Family Homelessness
Address:
181 Wells Ave.
Newton Centre, MA 02459
Phone:
617.964.3834, Ext. 10
E-mail:
ellen.bassuk@familyhomelessness.org
Web:
http://www.familyhomelessness.org...
Dr. Bassuk researches the impact of homelessness and the roles of violence, trauma and mental illness. She has worked on applied research projects like the Worcester Family Research Study, a comprehensive longitudinal study of sheltered homeless and low-income housed families and their children. Dr. Bassuk is currently project director for the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative's National Collaborative for Trauma-Surviving Homeless Children, directs the National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness, and is technical project director for the federal Chronic Homelessness Initiative.
Deepak Bhargava
Executive Director
Center for Community Change
Address:
1000 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20007
Phone:
202.339.9300
E-mail:
bhargavad@commchange.org
Web:
http://www.communitychange.org/...
Bhargava is the executive director of nonprofit Center for Community Change. For nearly four decades, the Center for Community Change has worked to strengthen the leadership, voice and power of low-income communities nationwide to confront the vital issues of today and build the social movements of tomorrow.
Lois Cantwell
Communications and Marketing Director
National Housing Institute
Address:
460 Bloomfield Ave., Suite 211
Montclair, NJ 07042-3552
Phone:
973.763.0333
E-mail:
lcantwell@nhi.org
NHI examines key issues affecting affordable housing and community development practitioners and their supporters. These include housing, jobs, safety and education, with an emphasis on housing and economic development, as well as poverty and racism, disinvestment and lack of employment, and breakdown of the social fabric. It explores those issues in its blog, Rooflines, and in its journal of affordable housing and community building, Shelterforce.
James Carr M.S.
Chief operating officer
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
Address:
727 15th St. N.W.
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005
E-mail:
jcarr@ncrc.org
Web:
www.communityinvestmentnetwork.org...
Carr manages day-to-day operations for the coalition, formed in 1990 to increase the flow of private capital into -- and improve banking and credit services in -- underserved communities. Members include community development corporations, civil rights groups, community reinvestment advocates, local and state government agencies, and churches. Previously, Carr served as senior vice president of innovation and research for the Fannie Mae Foundation, a private nonprofit organization devoted to affordable housing. He also is a visiting professor of urban planning at Columbia University. Before moving to the foundation in 1996, Carr served as vice president for housing research at Fannie Mae. Earlier, he worked as assistant director for tax policy for the U.S. Senate Budget Committee and as a research associate at Rutgers University’s Center for Urban Policy Research. He has published and lectured extensively on housing and urban policy, housing finance, community reinvestment, personal financial services, and state and local finance. Editor of the scholarly journal Housing Policy Debate since 1991, he also edited the Journal of Housing Research from 1991 to 2003. He co-edited the book “Replicating Microfinance in the United States” (Fannie Mae Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Center and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003) and edited “The New Imperative for Housing Equality” (forthcoming).
Kevin Cowl
Executive Vice President
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
Address:
727 15th St., NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005
Phone:
202.464.2725
E-mail:
kcowl@ncrc.org
Web:
www.ncrc.org...
The association of more than 600 community-based institutions promotes access to basic banking services, including credit and savings, to create and sustain affordable housing, job development and vibrant communities for America’s working families. Members include community development corporations, local and state government agencies, faith-based institutions, community organizing and civil rights groups, minority and women-owned business associations and social service providers.
Carol Emig
President
Child Trends
Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 350
Washington, DC 20008
Phone:
202.572.6003
E-mail:
cemig@childtrends.org
Web:
http://www.childtrends.org/...
Emig has run Child Trends since late 2006. The nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization provides guidance to improve policies, programs and decisions affecting children and their families. Its major research areas include: early childhood development; child welfare; education; youth development and the transition to adulthood; health; teen sex and pregnancy; fatherhood and parenting; and marriage and family. It studies children and youth at every stage of development and in every important subgroup (by race/ethnicity, family income, parents’ marital status, immigrant status, etc.). Child Trends’ online DataBank provides the latest statistics on more than 100 key indicators of child and youth well-being.
Shawn Flaherty
Director of Public Relations
Freddie Mac/Freddie Mac Foundation
Address:
8200 Jones Branch Dr.
McLean, VA 22102
Phone:
703.903.4384
E-mail:
Shawn_Flaherty@freddiemac.com
One of America’s biggest buyers of home mortgages, Freddie Mac is a stockholder-owned corporation chartered by Congress in 1970 to help people get lower housing costs and better access to home financing. Freddie Mac buys mortgages from lenders, packages these into guaranteed securities and sells them to investors.
Germonique Jones
Communications Director
Center for Community Change
Address:
1536 U St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20009
Phone:
202.339.9331
E-mail:
gjones@communitychange.org
Web:
www.communitychange.org...
The progressive social justice organization analyzes and translates policies affecting a broad swath of very low- to moderate-income people. It helps grass-roots groups – involved in issues such as affordable housing, income supports, economic justice and immigrants’ rights – build capacity to affect policies at all levels.
Stuart Kantor
Senior Public Affairs Associate
Urban Institute
Address:
2100 M St. NW
Washington, DC 20037
Phone:
202.261.5283
E-mail:
skantor@urban.org
Web:
http://www.uipress.org/Template.cfm?Section=Bookst...
The nonpartisan research institute investigates, analyzes and seeks solutions to U.S. social and economic problems. It works on issues involving work and income, housing and communities, child welfare, and civic engagement and philanthropy. Urban has 10 policy centers, including those focusing on low-income working families, economic security, education, health policy, criminal justice and taxes.
Julie Kerksick
Administrator
Division of Family and Economic Security
Wisconsin Department of Children and Families
Address:
P.O. Box 8916
Madison, WI 53708-8916
Phone:
608.267.3905
E-mail:
juliekerksick@hotmail.com
Web:
http://www.newhopeproject.org...
Kerksick most recently served as the Executive Director of the New Hope Project. Kerksick has spent her entire professional career working with and on behalf of unemployed and low-income workers. She has helped design public policy, but has also shared in the responsibility of translating those policies into operating programs and procedures. Kerksick also serves on the Steering Committee of the National Transitional Jobs Network and the Board of Directors for First Service Credit Union.
Moises Loza
Executive Director
Housing Assistance Council
Address:
1025 Vermont Ave. N.W., Suite 606
Washington, DC 20005
Phone:
202.842.8600
E-mail:
moises@ruralhome.org
Mary Moreno
senior communications specialist
Center for Community Change
Address:
1536 U Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
Phone:
202.339.9316
E-mail:
mmoreno@communitychange.org
Web:
www.communitychange.org...
The progressive social justice organization analyzes and translates policies affecting a broad swath of very low- to moderate-income people. It helps grass-roots groups – involved in issues such as affordable housing, income supports, economic justice and immigrants’ rights – build capacity to affect policies at all levels.
Jose Padilla
Executive Director
California Rural Legal Assistance
Address:
631 Howard St., Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone:
415.777.2752
E-mail:
hn0097@handsnet.org
Padilla's work has focused on immigration, civil rights and education law. He became legal advisor to California’s Migrant Education Parent Advisory Council and co-drafted AB 1382, the Migrant Education Statute, which addresses the special educational needs of California’s migrant children. CRLA’s legal work emphasizes assistance to the special needs of the farm worker community with cases focusing on pesticide exposure, housing, labor, education, civil rights, immigration and environmental justice.
Mark Savitt
President-elect
Not applicable
National Association of Mortgage Brokers
Address:
7900 Westpark Drive
Suite T-309
McLean, VA 22102
Phone:
304.267.9040
E-mail:
msavitt@mortgagefinance.com
Web:
www.mortgagefinance.com...
Savitt, president of the Mortgage Center in Martinsburg, W.Va., will begin his yearlong term as NAMB president in June 2008. Savitt is a board member and has served as chair of the organization's Government Affairs Committee and the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection. He was named NAMB Broker of the Year in 2006. He has worked to rid the industry of unfair and deceptive practices used by some homebuilders and real estate agents, and he formed the industry’s first consumer protection committee. Savitt spoke about the mortgage crisis during an SPJ workshop in October 2007.
Donald Whitehead
Executive Director
National Coalition for the Homeless
Address:
1012 Fourteenth St., N.W., Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005
Phone:
202.737.6444
E-mail:
nch@ari.net
Web:
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/...
The National Coalition for the Homeless, founded in 1984, is a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to ending homelessness. The coalition can connect journalists with the names of over 150 regional, state and local advocates across the country.
Marian Wright Edelman
President
Children's Defense Fund
Address:
25 E St. NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone:
202.662.3500 work or 202.244.9004 home
E-mail:
cdfinfo@childrensdefense.org
Web:
http://www.childrensdefense.org...
CDF advocates for the children of America who cannot vote, lobby or speak for themselves, paying particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities. CDF encourages preventive investment before children get sick, into trouble, drop out of school, or suffer family breakdown. CDF was founded in 1973 by Marian Wright Edelman; it is supported by foundation and corporate grants and individual donations. Edelman, a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, began her career in the mid-60s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi. In l968, she moved to Washington, D.C., as counsel for the Poor People's Campaign that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., began organizing before his death. She founded the Washington Research Project, a public-interest law firm and the parent body of CDF. For two years, she served as the Director of the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University and, in l973, began the Children's Defense Fund.
Public affairs specialist
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Address:
451 Seventh St. S.W.
Washington, DC 20410
Phone:
202.708.0685
E-mail:
Antoinette.P.Banks@hud.gov
Web:
www.hud.gov...
HUD was established in 1965 to develop and implement U.S. policy on housing and cities, though it now primarily concentrates on housing. Among its programs for families are Hope VI and Moving to Opportunity. Note: HUD’s site is a challenge to navigate. For a subject index, see http://www.hud.gov/funds/index.cfm
Louis Kincannon
Director
U.S. Census Bureau
Phone:
301.763.2135
E-mail:
charles.louis.kincannon@census.gov
Web:
http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/KincannonBio.html...
President George W. Bush nominated Kincannon for director of the Census Bureau on July 27, 2001, and the Senate confirmed him unanimously on March 13, 2002. He began his career as a statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau in 1963.
Acting Assistant Secretary for Children and Families
Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Address:
370 L'Enfant Plaza Promenade SW
Washington, DC 20201
Phone:
202.690.5977
E-mail:
Daniel.Schneider@HHS.GOV
Web:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/orgs/bios/schneider.htm...
Schneider became acting assistant secretary in April 2007. ACF oversees programs that promote the social and economic well-being of America’s children, youth and families. Before joining ACF, Schneider served as the general counsel at the National Endowment for the Humanities. During his NEH appointment, he spent a year as deputy associate director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.
Mark Tolbert
Deputy Public Information Officer
U.S. Census Bureau
Phone:
301.763.8327
E-mail:
mark.tolbert.iii@census.gov
Web:
http://www.census.gov/...
The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of data about the nation's people and economy.
Kenneth Wolfe
ACF Acting Deputy Director
Administration on Children and Families
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Address:
370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W.
Washington, DC 20201
Phone:
202.401.9215
E-mail:
kenneth.wolfe@acf.hhs.gov
Web:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/index.html...
ACF funds state, territory, local and tribal organizations to improve the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals and communities. It oversees roughly 60 programs involving child welfare and child support, Head Start, child care, family violence, and fatherhood and marriage.
Lemar Wooley
Public affairs specialist
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Address:
451 Seventh St. S.W.
Washington, DC 20410
Phone:
202.708.0685
E-mail:
Lemar.C.Wooley@hud.gov
Web:
www.hud.gov...
HUD was established in 1965 to develop and implement U.S. policy on housing and cities, though it now primarily concentrates on housing. Among its programs for families are Hope VI and Moving to Opportunity. Note: HUD’s site is a challenge to navigate. For a subject index, see http://www.hud.gov/funds/index.cfm For research and policy information, see http://www.huduser.org/
