Share this page. It started in 2000 with Down with the Sickness.. Disturbed's thick, rhythmic take on alt-metal was perfect music for stalking bloody zombies, and vocalist David Draiman's jaw-snapping Pavlovian grunts made the trigger fingers of first-person shooters itch.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defines affordable housing in the following way: The generally accepted definition of affordability is for a household to pay no more than 30 percent of its annual income on housing.
For most of us working in subsidized housing, HUD has always been around. But there was a time not so long ago that HUD did not exist. HUD was an off shoot of the Housing and Home Finance agency (HHFA). The Federal Government established one of its first Housing Acts in 1937. This first program was sometimes call Wagner-Steagall Act (after the congressional members involved in the program).