Through the Abilene Housing Authority, residents struggling with finding and affording housing are encouraged to apply for rental assistance. The AHA provides nearly 1,400 federally-funded rental ...

Turner Tackles HUD Program Reforms at Confirmation Hearing for Housing Secretary There were sports analogies galore but few policy specifics during Scott Turner ’s confirmation hearing on ...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is tasked with enforcing and coordinating federal housing law. The vast ...

The hearing focused on how Turner would address housing affordability and homelessness, reform HUD’s massive portfolio of housing subsidies, and tackle housing discrimination initiatives.

Turner, a former Texas lawmaker, oversaw the promotion of the opportunity zone program during the first Trump administration. In his role as HUD secretary ... and enforce fair housing laws.

On Monday, when President Donald Trump signed an executive order to freeze federal funding, government entities across the country raised concerns, including the Abilene Housing Authority.

HUD is a roughly $68 billion agency that provides rental assistance, builds and preserves affordable housing, addresses homelessness and enforces the Fair Housing Act that prohibits ...

ABILENE, Texas — Abilene has been selected as the first location for what President Trump is referring to as "the largest AI infrastructure project by far, in history.” At President Trump’s ...

ABILENE, Texas — Residents in Abilene can look forward to more restaurant selections this year. Two restaurants just broke ground in Abilene: Chuy's Tex-Mex and a third Braum's Ice Cream and ...

Abilene Mayor Weldon Hurt delivered ... Rebuild ABI, a program focused on creating affordable single-family housing, saw great success in 2024, Hurt said. Last year 30 projects were entered ...

Firefighters quenched the flames at a popular Abilene restaurant on Saturday, but Szechuan Chinese Restaurant will be closed until further notice. The Abilene Fire Department responded about 10:30 ...