The Senate approved a bill Thursday that would allocate $12 million per year in state funding to nonprofits providing services to homeless people, amid concerns that municipal budgets are strained and shelters are struggling.

Trice Edney Wire Eric Scott Turner, prospective HUD secretary, is sworn in before testifying before the U. S. Senate Banking

The Senate Banking Committee backed former NFL player Eric Scott Turner to become Housing and Urban Development secretary.

U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) was officially named as the new chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) for the 119th Congress.

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Senate committees on Thursday approved a handful of Trump Cabinet nominees setting them up for approval by the full chamber.

If confirmed, the NFL veteran and former developer would run a department with a $70 billion budget and roughly 8,000 employees

President Donald Trump fired at least 18 inspectors general across the federal government without required notification to Congress.

Also on the docket were testimony from Brooke Rollins, Trump's nominee to head up the Department of Agriculture, and confirmation votes for Housing and Urban Development secretary nominee Eric ...

Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Saturday she didn’t understand why President Trump fired several departmental inspectors general late Friday night given that

From left, U.S. Sen. Brian Shatz, Gov. Josh Green and HUD Regional Administrator Jason Pu celebrate Hawaiʻiʻs receipt of a $6.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to support more affordable housing.

“It’s a purge of independent watchdogs in the middle of the night. Inspectors general are charged with rooting out government waste, fraud, abuse, and preventing misconduct. President Trump is dismantling checks on his power and paving the way for widespread corruption,” she wrote.