{"id":34299,"date":"2014-12-07T00:30:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T16:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=34299"},"modified":"2014-12-07T00:30:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T16:30:49","slug":"fil-am-appointed-us-deputy-chief-of-housing-dept-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/07\/fil-am-appointed-us-deputy-chief-of-housing-dept-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fil-Am appointed US deputy chief of Housing Dep\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7766\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7766\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_173479733.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7766\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_173479733-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_173479733-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_173479733.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 A Filipino-American was appointed as the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the highest-rank served by a Fil-Am in the United States government.<\/p>\n<p>Nani Coloretti\u2019s confirmation by the US Senate \u201cattests to her excellent record and more than 20 years of experience in management, budget and finance,\u201d according to National Federation of Filipino-American Associations (NaFFAA) National Chairman JT Mallonga.<\/p>\n<p>Coloretti has served as Deputy Assistant in the Department of Treasury and later as Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget.<\/p>\n<p>She also worked in the San Francisco Mayor\u2019s Office for four years prior to her appointment at the Treasury Department.<\/p>\n<p>Coloretti also worked in the city\u2019s Department of Children, Youth and their Families for six years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gives us a great deal of pride to know that talented and dedicated individuals in our community are recognized and given opportunities to bring their skills and can-do spirit to leadership positions in government,\u201d Mallonga said in a report.<\/p>\n<p>Coloretti will be managing the Department\u2019s operations including the $45-billion annual budget and approximately 8,500 employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 A Filipino-American was appointed as the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}