With nation’s home foreclosure rate at the highest in years, there are plenty of bank foreclosed homes for home buyers to choose from. The HUD-funded Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing study compared different types of housing assistance programs in terms of their impacts on health and health care access, but the study did not include a group of participants that did not receive any housing assistance.
And HUD officials have acknowledged that even when these buildings fail physical inspections, HUD is slow to cancel contracts or impose fines on delinquent landlords — reluctant to force tenants out of their …