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1:   (BUDGET) Funding Stopgap Measure Almost Certain : With the Senate returning from the August congressional recess Sept. 13 and the House returning a day later, Congress has a minimum of eight days and a maximum of 13 days to complete work on the FY 2011 HUD spending bill. The timeframe is an impossib... 08/30/2010 5:10 PM

2:   (VOUCHERS) HUD Asked to Change Rules Covering Voucher Use at Subsidized Multi-Family Properties : HUD officials are expected to follow Office of Inspector General (OIG) recommendations asking them to provide housing authorities with updates to rules in instances where vouchers are used at subsidized multi-family properties. The OIG findings publ... 08/13/2010 2:41 PM

3:   (NOFA) HUD Offers $6 Million in Hispanic-Serving Higher Education Grant : Hispanic-serving higher educational institutions are eligible to receive awards of up to $600,000 available from HUD, which sets an Aug. 16 application deadline. HUD has $6 million available for fiscal year 2010 funding and makes several important c... 07/27/2010 09:13 AM

4:   (GRANT) Tribal Colleges Grant Funds Available for 2010; $800,000 Award Ceiling Set : HUD is preparing to issue $6.3 million in fiscal year 2010 grant funds through its Tribal Colleges & Universities Program (TCUP) for fiscal year 2010 and sets an Aug. 16 application deadline date. About $1 million of the total funding is carryove... 07/26/2010 1:52 PM

5:   (FHA) HUD Seeks Comment on Ways to Boost FHA Housing Reserves : HUD seeks public comment through Aug. 15 on new efforts designed to increase the Federal Housing Administration's (FHA) lagging housing reserves by lessening the risk to homeowners and the agency. An independent actuarial study issued last November ... 07/20/2010 10:05 AM

6:   (AUDIOCONFERENCE) Discussion Highlights How to Navigate HUD Grants Maze : "Although delayed by several months, the U.S. Housing & Urban Development Dept. has finally started its grant making season," says Ray Sweeney, long-time professional grant writer, federal funding consultant, editor of CD Publications' Federal &a... 07/01/2010 6 PM

7:   (HUD) Donovan: FHA Receipts Ahead of Projections; Not Ready to Say Worries Unfounded : HUD Secy. Shaun Donovan says Federal Housing Administration (FHA) receipts for this year are ahead of projections, but would not commit to forecasting an increase over initial predictions that would eliminate worries about a funding shortfall impacti... 06/21/2010 4:42 PM

8:   (FUNDS) HUD Continues Push for PETRA Bill While Distributing 2010 Capital Fund Money : HUD continues its push for legislation designed to transform public housing, even as it was dishing out more than $2 billion in Capital Fund Program money to make major improvements. The allocation of fiscal year 2010 Capital Fund money comes June 1... 06/17/2010 4:41 PM

9:   (CDC) HUD Brass in Early Talks to Seek CDC Aid : Top-level HUD officials are in the early stages of discussing how the department can find some way to provide some aid to the struggling Community Development Corporation (CDC) community. HUD Deputy Secy. Ron Sims had just ended a lunchtime speech t... 05/26/2010 1:52 PM

10:   (HUD) Dept. Uses 2007 Worst Case Housing Data to Push 2011 Budget Plans : While HUD was providing its mid-2007 data showing what it recorded as the worst-case housing needs, officials were busy pushing 2011 budget items designed to finance programs that would help address what they describe as on ongoing crisis. Dr. Rapha... 05/26/2010 11:31 AM

11:   (GOALS) Strategic Plan Looks to Aid Housing Market, Build Sustainable Communities : HUD issues its new five-year strategic plan, stressing ways to improve the housing market, meet affordable housing needs, build sustainable communities and improving the department's operations as goals going forward. The May 12 plan comes in a 60-p... 05/14/2010 4:58 PM

12:   (DONOVAN) Transformation Plan Due Soon : While HUD officials continue to portray the planned Obama administration's transformation of HUD functions in broad terms, HUD Secy. Shaun Donovan gives some hints at what the five-year blueprint for change will contain. The focus will be on affordab... 04/16/2010 4:51 PM

13:   (HUD) Block Grant Office Seeks Alternative to OIG Suggestion on NSP Special Conditions : HUD's Office of Block Grant Assistance (BGA) is seeking a different resolution to solutions sought by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) after it asked BGA to use its plan to determine whether Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) grant agreeme... 04/14/2010 09:46 AM

14:   (HUD) Department Sends States $50 Million in Job Training Funds : HUD sends almost $50 million to provide states and territories with job training funds to help low-income persons retrain for new occupations. The $49.3 million funding comes through HUD's Housing Choice Voucher Family Self-Sufficiency (HCV-FSS) Pro... 03/31/2010 4:56 PM

15:   (HUD) Dept. Seeks Comment on Environmental Study Plans for WA Housing Redevelopment Site : HUD sets a May 17 deadline for public comment on plans made by the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) and the City of Seattle's Human Services Department (HSD) to conduct an environmental impact statement (EIS) on a massive housing redevelopment in the ... 03/31/2010 2:44 PM

16:   (HUD) NSP-1 Grantees Making Final Changes to Plans; HUD May Extend Deadlines : Some grantees receiving HUD money in the first round of Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) are in the midst making changes to their final plans, and discussion is underway about whether to extend program deadlines. Mercedes Marquez, the assist... 03/12/2010 11:14 AM

17:   (HUD) Department Meets Sec. 3 Job, Training Opportunity Goals for 2008 : HUD easily meets its goal to provide jobs and training opportunities to low- and very-low income persons, topping by nearly one-third the federal requirement set in its Sec. 3 program. Sec. 3 of the Housing & Urban Development Act of 1968 requir... 03/09/2010 10:38 AM

18:   (HOUSING) Dept. Awards $13 million for Healthy Homes, Green-Building Grants, Studies : HUD awards $13 million to further control of lead paint in low-income housing, as well as to finance technical studies for healthy homes and green-building activities and their impact on low-income households. Of the $13 million, 25 local projects a... 03/01/2010 4:28 PM

19:   (AWARDS) Boston Public Health Commission, Rutgers Win Multiple HUD Healthy Homes Grants : The Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) just got a chance to be busier. The BPHC receives more than $1.6 million in grant funds from HUD to perform Healthy Homes Demonstration and Technical Studies grants to aid the health of persons in low-income... 03/01/2010 4:24 PM

20:   (HOMEOWNERSHIP) HUD Issues $26.5 Million in Fiscal Year 2009 Sweat Equity Grants : HUD sends $26.5 million in fiscal year 2009 Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP) grant awards to four national nonprofit groups who are expected to build a combined 1,500 new affordable housing units, many of them single-family homes. ... 02/25/2010 09:57 AM

21:   (TRIBES) HUD Sets Initial Hearings on New Rules in NAHASDA Reauthorization : Those looking to comment on portions of the updated Native American Housing Assistance & Self-Determination Act of 2008 requiring new HUD rules can offer suggestions during meetings set for March 9-10 in Scottsdale, AZ. HUD's Negotiated Rulemaki... 02/23/2010 09:40 AM

22:   (HOUSING) HANO Comes Under Fire for Management of Finances, Development Efforts : HUD officials issue a laundry list of difficulties within the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO), including the development area. HUD officials say they will develop a strategy in order to return HANO to fully functioning on its own. The federa... 02/19/2010 4:53 PM

23:   (HUD) New Sustainable Housing Office Offered as Path to Smart Growth : Hailing the start of a new place-based federalism to provide smart growth, HUD Secy. Shaun Donovan goes to Seattle to announce the creation of a new department office, the Office of Sustainable Housing & Communities. Donovan used the podium at t... 02/09/2010 11:07 AM

24:   (HUD) Changes Crimp Budget Funding : HUD's FY2011 spending blueprint has sufficient bottom-line money to finance all programs fully and then some. But a big chunk of the cash will be diverted to changing the way HUD and its programs operate. When President Barack Obama took office a ye... 02/05/2010 12:46 PM

25:   (BUDGET) HUD Moves to Streamline, Preserve Rental Assistance Programs in 2011 Budget : HUD seeks to consolidate and simplify 13 rental assistance improvement programs and preserve 300,000 rental units as part of a major new $350 million Transforming Rental Assistance (TRA) initiative. The department issued its plan Feb. 1 in its budge... 02/04/2010 10:16 AM

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