HUD

To assist sponsors and owners of Section 202 and Section 811 projects in reducing operating costs, HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research has published Enhancing Energy Efficiency and Green Building Design in Section 202 and Section 811 Programs.

Last week, the House Committee on Appropriations released its draft 302b allocations, the amounts each of the 12 appropriations subcommittees will have available to spend on their respective FY-2012 funding bills.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released its U.S. Housing Market Conditions Report for the first quarter of 2011.

HUD’s Economic and Market Analysis Division prepared a comprehensive housing market analysis of the Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin, Tennessee housing market area.

Last week, Secretary Shaun Donovan delivered the keynote address to the Harvard Joint Center/McArthur Rental Leadership Forum at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) last week invited public comments on a proposed assessment of Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian housing needs.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Economic and Market Analysis Division has prepared a Comprehensive Housing Market Analysis for the Lubbock, Texas market area.

House of Representatives Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Ill.) has released his FY-2012 Budget proposal.

HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research recently released national estimates of the number and characteristics of worst case needs (WCN) households that include people with disabilities in Worst Case Housing Needs of People with Disabilities “” Supplemental Findings of the Worst Case Housing Needs 2009: Report to Congress.

This notice announces that the multifamily rental project closing documents have completed the notice and comment processes. The final versions of the documents can be found on HUD’s Web site.

HUD has issued a new final rule that amends certain Federal Housing Administration (FHA) regulations to update these regulations to reflect current HUD policy in the area of multifamily rental projects.

The research symposium in the newest issue of Cityscape, published by HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research, focuses on homelessness “” a complex social issue that adversely affects most Americans, although circumstances vary.