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NH&RA Elects New Directors and Officers; Thom Amdur Named President at Recent Annual Meeting in Miami, FL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Thom Amdur, President National Housing & Rehabilitation Association 202-939-1753 or [email protected] March 6–The National Housing & Rehabilitation Association is proud to announce that its Board of Directors elected Robert Fein, Principal and Chief Operating Officer for Red Stone Equity Partners, as its Chair and named Thom Amdur as the organization’s […]
Urban Institute 50th Anniversary Brief on Housing
In honor of its 50th anniversary, the Urban Institute launched the first in its Catalyst series of products that will be released over the next few months as part of the Next50 initiative. The inaugural Catalyst focuses on affordable housing and provides an overview of four promising solutions to the housing crisis being pursued in communities around the country: produce more housing, more cheaply; preserve affordable housing and neighborhoods; expand housing assistance; and widen homeownership options.
New CDFA Series: Food Finance
The Council of Development Finance Agencies (CDFA) released the first white paper of a series, Food Systems and Development Finance. This white paper explores the potential for development finance to support this new food system asset class with a dozen case studies featuring bonds, tax increment finance, tax credits and revolving loan fund programs.
IRS, Treasury Amend LIHTC Compliance-Monitoring Regulations
The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service published final regulations that amend the compliance monitoring regulations concerning the low-income housing tax credit under section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code. These final regulations revise and clarify the requirement to conduct physical inspections and review low-income certifications and other documentation. The regulations are […]
HUD Publishes RAD for PRAC Notice for Comment
The FY 18 Appropriations Act authorized the conversion of properties assisted by Section 202 Project Rental Assistance Contracts. HUD is in the process of revising the RAD Notice to include a new Section 4 that would provide implementation instructions for the conversion of Section 202 PRACs under RAD. HUD published a draft Section 4 to the Office of Multifamily Housing’s “Drafting Table” for feedback. Following consideration of public feedback received, the Office of Recap will proceed toward incorporation of the new Section 4 into a revised RAD Notice.
Appleton, Calabria and Kurtz Nominations Advance in Senate
On Feb. 26, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs approved the nominations of Seth Appleton to be Assistant Secretary of HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research, Dr. Mark Calabria to be Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and Robert Kurtz to be Assistant Secretary of HUD’s Office of Public and […]
Florida Housing Publishes SAIL RFA
Florida Housing released RFA 2019-104 “SAIL Financing For Smaller Permanent Supportive Housing Developments For Persons With Special Needs.”
Senate Banking Votes on Calabria’s FHFA Nomination – Feb. 26
On February 26, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs will vote on the nomination of Mark Calabria to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The Committee will also consider the nominations of Seth Appleton to lead HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research and Robert Hunter Kurtz to be the Assistant Secretary […]
New HUD FY 2018 TPV Notice
HUD published Notice PIH 2019-01, which makes available $5 million for Tenant Protection Vouchers (TPVs) for certain at-risk households in low-vacancy areas from FY 2018 appropriations. The FY 2018 appropriations bill set aside $5 million of the total $85 million for TPV.
SUNY Residence Hall Energy Retrofit
The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York is seeking a Statement of Qualifications from qualified Design-Build teams capable of providing all services necessary to design and construct the renovation of an existing residence hall, including additional 6,000 sf for added programming need, an increase to 300 beds, and retrofitting of the building envelope plus systems to fully electrify and reduce energy use to a maximum EUI of 32kbtu/sf/year.
Oregon RFP Seeks Contractor to Develop Preservation “Designee” Process
Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) issued RFP 914-4740-19, Contractor for OHCS Preservation “Designee” Process. In collaboration with the Preservation Program Manager leading this effort, this contractor would establish an application process and inventory of potential designee’s in collaboration with local governments. The contractor will be expected to implement a designee outreach strategy that should include current owners of participating properties or affordable housing developers, including those new to doing business in Oregon.
Oregon Housing Stability Council – March 1
Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) will hold a Housing Stability Council meeting on Friday, March. 1, 2019 from 9 am – 1 pm PT. Attendees can participate in person at OHCS (725 Summer St. NE, Salem, OR) in conference room 124 A/B or via phone: 1-877-273-4202; Participant Code: 4978330. The meeting materials packet is […]