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The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, often abbreviated HUD, is a Cabinet department of the United States federal government. Although its beginnings were in the House and Home Financing Agency, it was founded in 1965 to develop and execute policy on housing and cities. It has largely scaled back its urban development function and now focuses primarily on housing. The department was established on September 9, 1965 when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Department of... full article at wikipedia

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Gwendolyn S. King	Division Director, Consumer Complaints	1976	1978
Nicolas P. Retsinas	Assistant Secretary for Housing & Federal Housing Commissioner	1993	1998
John Zuccotti	Assistant to Secretary Robert C. Wood
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