HUD

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced an additional $1 billion in funding to all states along with a number of counties and local communities through the third round of HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP).

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is soliciting comments from the public on the forms it recently made available for the purpose of determining the operating subsidy obligation and proration level for Public Housing Agencies (PHA).

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is soliciting comments from the public on the forms it recently made available for the purpose of determining the operating subsidy obligation and proration level for Public Housing Agencies (PHA).

The Urban Institute, a non-partisan research think-tank, has published a new paper entitled “Why Housing Choice and Mobility Matter.”

HUD’s Federal Housing Administration has issued regulations for its multifamily mortgage insurance program relating to a provision in Title VIII of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 that prohibits a requirement that tax credit sales proceeds be placed into escrow, at the time of initial endorsement, for assurance of project completion and to pay the initial service charge, carrying charges, and legal and organizational expenses incident to the construction of the project.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released a preview of its U.S. Housing Market Conditions report for the second quarter of 2010.

HUD has issued a new mortgagee letter (2010-26) and Housing Notice (2010-16) to all FHA-Approved Multifamily Mortgagees issuing further policy guidance to defer submission of final architectural plans and specifications introduced by Mortgagee Letter 2008-19, 19), titled “Streamlined Processing of Multifamily Mortgage Insurance Applications Involving Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC).”

Today, the Obama administration is holding its Conference on the Future of Housing Finance at the Treasury Department. The conference will be moderated by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and HUD Secretary Shawn Donovan, and will feature a diverse slate of panelists representing various stakeholder groups who will discuss housing finance reform as it pertains to the broader financial markets and the administration’s broader housing policy goals.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is soliciting comments from the public on the data collection process for the 2011 American Housing Survey (AHS).

The Obama Administration has announced expanded opportunities for public engagement on the future of our nation’s housing finance system, including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

NH&RA is please to offer TEN digital audio recordings of select panel sessions from its recent 2010 Summer Institute & Pre-Conference Symposium on New Markets Tax Credits!

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released a report through its Office of Policy Development & Research’s HUD USER website that explores the possibility of using small area statistical techniques provided by the American Community Survey (ACS) to generate data for areas not covered by the American Housing Survey (AHS).