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(CAMPS) Homeless Camp Review Panel Formed
   Seattle, WA Mayor Mike McGinn (D) forms a review panel to make recommendations on how the city should respond to homeless camps in light of drastic budget cuts and increasing need. The city has an entrenched population of about 2,000 people who slee... 08/20/2010 3 PM

(LOCAL) CA City Sets Deadline for Proposals to Use CDBG to Aid At-Risk Youth
   Oxnard, CA officials set a Sept. 9 deadline on proposals from nonprofit groups seeking to use Community Development Block Grant funds in order to provide services for at-risk youth. The city has $229,445 in CDBG money to use to aid youth services as... 08/18/2010 2:31 PM

(DEMO AWARDS) HUD, Vet Affairs Send $15 Million in Demonstration Grants to Bases, Communities
   HUD and the Dept. of Veterans Affairs present the first grants totaling $15 million as part of a joint demonstration effort to prevent veteran homelessness. The new Veterans Homelessness Prevention Demonstration Program (VHPD) provides existing HUD ... 07/26/2010 4:29 PM

(GRANTS) AK, HI Native Institutions Compete for Shares of $3.2 Million in HUD Funds
   HUD sets an Aug. 16 deadline for higher-education institutions supporting Native Alaskan and Hawaiian populations to apply for up to $800,000 in money for community development needs in their localities. The funding, given annually, is targeted to s... 07/26/2010 1:24 PM

(ENERGY EFFICIENCY) CA Solar Lease Program Reaps Success
   Lennar Corp. is the first high-production homebuilder in the United States to successfully launch a solar lease program that virtually eliminates up-front costs and provides homeowners with below-market energy rates. Lennar introduced the innovative... 07/02/2010 12:47 AM

(PROPERTY RIGHTS) WA Appeals Court Rejects Challenge to Homeless Encampment
   A Washington state appeals court rejects a citizen's group challenge to an agreement allowing a church located in a Mercer Island residential zone to host a three-month homeless encampment, saying the challenge was filed too late to qualify under sta... 06/16/2010 12:39 PM

(GRANTS) Goldman Sachs Offering Capital Access, Education to Southern CA Small Businesses
   Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will begin a program in August offering $20 million in small business loans, while providing grants to community colleges that will provide chosen applicants free access to business and management education. The 10,000 Small... 06/14/2010 5:45 PM

(OIG) Sacramento, OIG Battling Over Claims of Ineligible NSP-1 Spending
   Sacramento's Housing & Redevelopment Agency (SHDA) and HUD's Office of Inspector General (OIG) are at odds over a recommendation that the city repay $1.1 million in non-federal funds after OIG found ineligible expenditures in the city's Neighborh... 06/10/2010 10:50 AM

(DEVELOPMENT) Vast San Francisco Development OK'd
   Lennar Corp. clears a major hurdle to the development of San Francisco's Hunters Point Shipyard when the city's Planning Commission and the board of the Redevelopment Agency voted separately to approve the project's environmental impact report. The ... 06/04/2010 5:02 PM

(HUD) Need for Expected NSP-1 Recaptures Varies Case by Case
   HUD officials say no single factor is responsible for the failure of first-round Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP-1) grantees being unable to allocate funding to date, but say the areas where housing markets are still suffering the most will r... 05/18/2010 4:44 PM

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