1964: Civil Rights Act Is Passed

Slide 1: 1960’s Major U.S. Events

1964: Civil Rights Act is passed.

1964: Title VI of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in program and activities receiving federal financial assistance.

1968: Fair Housing Act is enacted.

1968: Architectural Barriers Act is passed.

Slide 2: New Beginnings

1965: HUD is created; [picture] Carl A.S. Coan, Sr., Staff Director, Senate Subcommittee on Housing, Banking and Currency Committee, receiving a pen from President Lyndon Johnson at the signing of the bill to establish the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Mr. Coan’s grandson, Brian Fitzmaurice, is the Director of the Community Assistance Division, Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs, CPD.

1965: Rehabilitation grants awarded to urban areas focused on Water and Sewage.

1966: Model Cities Grants awarded to coordinate federal grants in urban areas.

1968: New Communities Program is created to enlist private capital in new community development.

Slide 3: 1970’s Major U.S. Events

1973: Rehabilitation Act is enacted; Section 504 prohibits discrimination based on disability in any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.

1973: Twin Towers in New York City are completed.

1974: Housing and Community Development Act is enacted. Section 109 of Title I prohibits discrimination in programs and activities receiving financial assistance from HUD’s Community Development and Block Grant Program.

1975: Age Discrimination Act is enacted prohibiting discrimination on the basis of age in programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance.

1975: Vietnam War comes to an end.

Slide 4: Creating Viable Communities

1974: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program is created. CDBG is one of the longest continuously run programs at HUD. This first iteration of the CDBG program provided annual grants on a formula basis to entitlement jurisdictions only.

1977: Urban Development Action Grants (UDAG) are awarded to assist cities and urban counties experiencing severe economic distress to help stimulate economic development activity needed to aid in economic recovery.

Slide 5: 1980’s Major U.S. Events

1980: The CDBG Small Cities Program is created which provides federal funds to the States and Puerto Rico who then distribute funds to non-entitlement counties, small cities and towns for community development.

1985: Live Aid concert held in London, Philadelphia, Australia and Germany to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. It was one of the largest-scale satellite link-ups and television broadcast of all time.

1986: HIV is officially named. By the end of the year, 85 countries had reported 38,401 cases of AIDS to the World Health Organization – 37,741 were from the Americas region.

1987: Congress enacts the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Act in response to the homelessness crisis that had emerged in the 1980’s.

Slide 6: Growing Contributions to the Nation

1982: State CDBG program awards funding to states who in turn award grants to smaller units of general local government that develop and preserve decent affordable housing, provide services to the most vulnerable, and create and retain jobs.

1984: Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream Company is created with the help of a UDAG grant.

1989: The Bollinger Foundation is established – named after Steve Bollinger, former Assistant Secretary for CPD, from 1981 until his death in 1984.

1989: Special Needs Assistance Programs are created to serve people experiencing homelessness and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Slide 7: 1990’s Major U.S. Events

1990-1995: World Wide Web (www.) is developed and internet connectivity expands to most of the world by 1995.

1990: Americans with Disabilities Act is passed prohibiting discrimination based on disabilities in programs, services, and activities provided or made available by public entities.

1990: Global Change Research Act is passed requiring the National Science and Technology Council and the U.S. Global Change Research Program to produce national assessments on climate change in the U.S.

1999: Supreme Court announces the Olmstead decision – people with disabilities have the right to receive the treatment they need in an integrated setting (cannot be segregated) if certain conditions are met.

Slide 8: Youth and Community Empowerment

1992: YouthBuild program provided education, counseling and job skills to young American adults, generally those who dropped out of high school. Program participants learned a trade during the day and worked on passing the GED in the afternoons. This resulted in employment and with helping to rebuild neighborhoods. The program was eventually transferred to the U.S. State Department.

[picture of young adult] “Without YouthBuild a lot of us would be dead or in jail.”

1993: The Empowerment Zone (EZ), Enterprise Community (EC), and Renewal Community (RC) Initiatives were launched to reduce unemployment and generate economic growth through the designation of Federal tax incentives and award of grants to distressed communities.

Slide 9: 2000’s Major U.S. Events

2001: Terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, DC Metropolitan Area.

2005: Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma hit Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida.

2007 – 2008: U.S. experiences financial crisis affecting the housing market and resulting in evictions, foreclosures and prolonged unemployment.

2009: Congress passes the HEARTH Act, intended to consolidate separate homelessness programs at HUD and to make the system of homeless assistance more performance-based.

2009: Congress passes the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) also known as the Stimulus or Recovery Act.

2010: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) (Affordable Care Act) is signed into law.

Slide 10: A Decade of Recovery and Rebuilding

2000: Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development (ORHED) administers the Section 4 Guarantee Recovery Fund established through the Church Arson Prevention Act in response to the arsons that destroyed more than 66 black churches in an 18 month period.

2001: Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) receives a $2 billion federal appropriation through CPD for the World Trade Center disaster recovery and rebuilding efforts.

2005: CPD administers more than $20 billion to supplement recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

2009: CPD’s Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs (SNAPs) administers and additional $1.5 billion through the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP) to prevent and end homelessness as part of the Stimulus Package.

2010: SNAPs launches Affordable Care Act Technical Assistance to support homeless assistance providers with facilitating access to expanded healthcare opportunities for program participants.

Slide 11: 2011 – 2015 Major U.S. Events

2012: Hurricane Sandy hits New York, New Jersey and the Connecticut Coast.

2013: The United States Federal Government entered a shutdown from October 1 – 16.

2014: The National Science and Technology Council and the U.S. Global Change Research Program release third national climate assessment: Climate Change Impacts in the United States.

Slide 12: Poised for another 50 Years of Success

2011: HOME Program is a catalyst for change. The HOME program funds a range of activities including building, buying, and rehabilitating affordable housing for rent or homeownership or providing direct rental assistance to low-income people.

2012: Mark Johnston, DAS for Special Needs, CPD, wins Citizen Award for leading a HUD – VA interdepartmental program that reduced veterans homelessness by 12 percent.

2013: Disaster Recovery Team responds to Hurricane Sandy.

2015: Thunder Valley CDC, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, receives a Community Challenge Grant and is recognized by President Barack Obama for developing a project to create housing and jobs on the reservation.