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A Consumer Guide to Energy-Efficient and Healthy Homes
This consumer guide describes how to improve a home’s energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality, which can help reduce heating and cooling costs, save energy, and improve occupants’ health and comfort levels.
Archives
The HUD USER Archives is composed of collections of archived web pages that are no longer being updated due to budgetary and other constraints. The intent of these pages is to catalog, provide access to, and preserve digital materials.
Aging Research and Resources
This page contains links to HUD-sponsored programs and research efforts focused on supporting aging in place and improving the quality of life for elderly residents.
Bibliographic Database
The Bibliographic Database on HUD USER is the only bibliographic database exclusively dedicated to housing and community development issues.
ConnectHome
The ConnectHome initiative is a collaboration between communities, the private sector, and the Federal Government to expand high-speed Internet access to more families across the country.
Connect with HUD User
eLists available through HUD User deliver summaries of the latest housing research to your desktop when you subscribe to PD&R’s free electronic publications and newsletters.
Disaster Recovery
PD&R offers relevant resources, reports, and guides specific to various natural disasters, such as flooding, wind-related disasters, and earthquakes, to aid communities in the disaster recovery process.
Delegations of Authority and Order of Succession
Federal Register notices on the redelegation of authority and order of succession for the Office of Policy Development and Research.
eBookstore
PD&R offers a selection of its most popular housing research in a variety of eBook-friendly formats. Through the HUD User eBookstore, users can browse the inventory and download titles of interest. New titles are added on an ongoing basis.
Frequently Asked Questions
To provide support and help users fully utilize all of HUD User’s data and information, PD&R maintains a list of Frequently Asked Questions for the HUD User website.
First Time Visitor
To help first time visitors navigate HUD User, PD&R has assembled a concise guide to the information and assistance available through the HUD USER website, including an overview of PD&R’s data and periodicals.
Guidelines for Preparing a Report for Publication
This guide was prepared initially in response to numerous inquiries that PD&R’s Research Utilization Division received from HUD staff and contractors about how to prepare reports for publication and about publication standards and guidelines.
HUD’s Local Office Directory
For general questions about HUD or its programs, contact a local HUD field office. HUD’s Local Office Directory offers contact information for each local field office, separated by state.
HUD Regional Map
HUD is organized into 10 Regions. Each Region contains a Regional Office, which is managed by a Regional Administrator. Each Field Office within a Region is managed by a Field Office Director, who reports to the Regional Administrator.
HUD Secretary's Awards
The HUD Secretary’s Awards are presented annually to honor projects that exemplify excellence in five categories: affordable housing design, community planning, cooperative public/private efforts, healthy housing, and historic preservation.
HUD User Forum
HUD USER Forums provide opportunities for information exchange between housing and community development researchers, academics, policymakers, and practitioners.
HUD Historical Timeline
The historical timeline presents a visualization of the federal government’s role in promoting affordable housing and urban development. The timeline covers significant legislative, organizational, community development, and other events dating from the early 1930s to the present day.
HUD User Web Store
Many of HUD User’s reports can be ordered in hard copy. HUD User’s Web Store currently offers nearly 800 housing related titles available via the HUD User Document Ordering System.
HUD at 50
PD&R celebrates 50 years of places as platforms of opportunity with photo essays, presentations, 50th Anniversary Book, and publications on HUD’s history, programs, and impact.
Housing Scorecard
Produced monthly by HUD and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the monthly scorecards on the nation’s housing market incorporate key indicators.
International and Philanthropic Affairs Division
IPAD provides expert resources and a venue for staff and partners to access the best available evidence, innovations, and lessons from the philanthropic and international housing sectors.
Local Housing Assistance
Visitors who are in need of public housing assistance or would like specific information about public housing programs, such as housing choice vouchers, should visit HUD’s Local Housing Assistance page to locate and find contact information for their local Public Housing Agency.
Market Analysis
The Economic and Market Analysis Division prepares Comprehensive Housing Market Analyses that assist and guide HUD in its operations.
PD&R Edge
Edge, an online magazine, provides easily understood translations of PD&R and HUD partners' research, a message from PD&R Senior staff, and a wide range of information on housing and community development issues, regulations, and case studies.
Peer Review of Highly Influential Scientific Information
Pursuant to an Information Quality Bulletin of the Office of Management and Budget, HUD submits reports containing influential scientific information for peer review.
Programs of HUD
Programs of HUD is a publication detailing the major rental, mortgage, grant, other assistance and regulatory programs of the Department. The nature of each program is described along with information on grantee eligibility and funding distribution. The most recent as well as archived reports are available for download.
Public Health Research and Resources
Find HUD-sponsored initiatives and resources focused on the link between health equity and housing.
Research Partnerships
The Research Partnerships portal contains information for prospective research partners whose work advances the key research areas of HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research. The Research Partnerships program helps advance research priorities and can inform new policy and program development through noncompetitive cooperative research agreements.
Small Business Opportunities
The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Office of Policy Development and Research are looking for small businesses with the capacity to conduct research and evaluation related to HUD programs.
Social Networking
HUD User Forums provide opportunities for information exchange between housing and community development researchers, academics, policymakers, and practitioners. Follow HUD User on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook for updates on the latest information posted on the website.
Student Resources
HUD User provides a number of useful resources for students and researchers; students can learn about relevant competitions sponsored by HUD, find information on emerging trends in sustainable community development, and access original PD&R datasets, periodicals, and reports.
eList Archives
eLists archives have list of all the eLists sent to subscribers.