HUD

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently announced the mortgage insurance premiums (MIPs) for FHA Multifamily Housing, Health Care Facilities, and Hospital Mortgage Insurance programs that have commitments to be issued or reissued in FY 2011.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is soliciting public comments by September 18 on a proposed rule that would revise current requirements for physical needs assessments (PNAs) for public housing properties.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released the Components of Inventory Change (CINCH) and Rental Market Dynamics reports for 2007-2009.

In response to a year long Washington Post investigation titled “Million Dollar Wasteland” a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers is calling on Congress to probe the nation’s housing-construction program for the poor, citing years-long delays and other breakdowns that have thwarted the production of hundreds of affordable-housing projects.

HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research is soliciting abstracts for presentations at the 2nd Annual American Housing Survey User Conference, scheduled for the Spring of 2012. Interested scholars and professionals are invited to submit research papers that apply the special features of the AHS datasets to issues of current interest.

HUD is soliciting comments from the public on the Tenant Resource Network (TRN) Program.

The U.S. Department of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is conducting a national study of Disaster Housing Assistance Program (DHAP) families who transitioned from stepped-up rents and $0 rent to market rate or assisted housing and to track their housing, employment, and financial outcomes over time.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today released revised fiscal year (FY) 2011 income limits for certain areas.

HUD is soliciting input on how to improve the Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant NOFA at the Choice Neighborhoods Listening Session in DC from 2:30 ““ 4:30pm on Friday, July 15.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today released a study entitled, “Capital Needs in the Public Housing Program” that finds the nation’s 1.2 million public housing units need an estimated $25.6 billion for large scale repairs.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is soliciting comments from the public to provide HUD information regarding the Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program NOFA applications. Comments are due by July 25, 2011.

HUD is seeking comments on alternative survey methodologies to collect gross rent data for specific areas in a relatively fast and accurate way that may be used to estimate and update Section 8 Fair Market Rents (FMRs) in areas where FMRs are believed to be incorrect and data from the American Community Survey is not available at the local level.