HUD

HUD is soliciting comments from potential applicants with regard to the Energy Innovation Fund ““ a new pilot program for increasing the energy efficiency of multifamily housing.

Affordable rental housing is the subject of Department of Housing and Urban Development’s spring 2011 issue of Evidence Matters. The issue centers on the role rental housing policy plays in housing and community development.

We are pleased to announce that online registration and hotel reservations are now open for the National Council of Affordable Housing Market Analysts Affordable Housing Underwriting Conference & Annual Meeting.

Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Ron Sims recently announced that he will retire from public service and return to his home & family in Seattle, WA.

MaineHousing has announced that it will hold a series of public forums to develop the State’s 2012 Consolidated Plan.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan recently published an op-ed piece in the Washington Post in response to a front-page story last month entitled, “Million Dollar Wasteland,” which criticized the management of HUD’s HOME Program.

Two federal lawmakers this week sent a letter to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requesting detailed accounting of more than 1,000 affordable-housing construction projects funded by the Department’s HOME Program.

HUD’s Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Fannie Mae recently announced a joint venture to allow owners of existing affordable rental housing properties to refinance into new mortgages that include funding for energy- and water-saving upgrades, along with other needed property renovations.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released the new area median income limits for Fiscal Year 2011.

HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing recently issued a notice that extends the Administrative Guidance for Effective and Mandated Use of the Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) System (PIH-2010-19(HA)) for another year until May 31, 2012.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is seeking comments regarding surveys to provide HUD with a way to estimate Section 8 Fair Market Rents (FMRs) in areas not covered by the American Community Survey annual reports and in areas where FMRs are believed to be incorrect.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has issued a notice of emergency information collection soliciting comments from the public with regard to the FY-2011 Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) / HOPE VI Program notice of funding availability.