General News

On September 13th, the Alabama Housing Finance Authority (AHFA) Board of Directors approved drafts of its 2013 HOME Investment Partnerships Program Action Plan and the LIHTC Qualified Allocation Plan. AHFA will be hosting a public hearing on Tuesday, October 2, 2012

The Kentucky Housing Corporation along with TheoPRO Compliance & Consulting, Inc. will be hosting a Low Income Housing Tax Credit Training Thursday and Friday October 4-5, 2012 in the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Auditorium (Room C105), 200 Mero Street, Frankfort, KY.

The Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) has issued a Request for Responses (RFR) for 150 housing vouchers from the Massachusetts Rental Voucher program (MRVP) to serve homeless families.

HUD has announced the creation of the Partners in Housing Advanced Preservation Training series for multifamily Owners and senior level Property Management company staff. The HUD workshops will focus on advanced approaches to preserving affordable multifamily properties and builds upon the Basic “Partners in Housing” course.

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on behalf of the White House recently released a report which details the potential effects sequestration, or across-the-board cuts to the budget, could have on both defense and non-defense programs. In August 2011, both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate voted for the threat of sequestration as a mechanism to force Congress to act on reducing the deficit by $1.2 trillion as required by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA).

HUD has released a revised Chapter 14 of the Asset Management and Project Servicing handbook, which is the primary tool used by Field Office Loan Management multifamily staff in carrying out asset management and loan servicing responsibilities in monitoring and assisting owners/managing agents to maintain projects in good physical and financial condition.

The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed by a vote of 402-7 the FHA Emergency Fiscal Solvency Act of 2012 (HR 4264), a measure which would help shore up the fiscal solvency of the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) mortgage insurance programs. The bill, introduced by Judy Biggert (R-IL), Chair of the House Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity Subcommittee, places a minimum on annual FHA mortgage insurance premiums and enhances FHA risk and enforcement measures to protect against fraud and abuse, among other provisions.

HUD has published its quarterly notice of all regulatory waivers that the Department has approved for the Office of Community Planning and Development, the Office of Housing ““ Federal Housing Administration (FHA), and the Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH).

The Kentucky Housing Corporation is accepting applications for an allocation of Project-Based Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers. The application deadline is Monday, October 8, 2012.

The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (MDHCD) and TDA Consulting, Inc., the consulting entity for the revision process for the Maryland LIHTC QAP, will be hosting its second Listening Session on September 14, 2012

The Colorado Housing Finance Agency (CHFA) has released a draft of its 2013 Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP). The draft highlights CHFA’s selection priorities for the 2013 allocation cycle.

Four legislative measures that would impact California’s cities and counties ability to direct property tax funds to local development projects were recently sent to Governor Jerry Brown for approval. This move comes after the Governor last July approved AB 26x which dissolved the activit