General News

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently requested Econometrica, Inc., to assess the analytical usefulness of the American Housing Survey’s (AHS) content.

Oregon Housing and Community Services will hold public meetings to discuss implementation of House Bill 2436, the Housing Opportunity Bill on…

The Metropolitan Area Quarterly Residential and Business
Vacancy Report for the quarter ending March 31, 2009 is
a recent addition to HUD USER’s library of online data
sets.

In April of this year, the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (TCAC) announced it would conduct a single competitive funding round for 9% and 4%-plus-state credit applications. In order to accommodate applicants who had planned to apply for second round consideration, TCAC regulations were adopted allowing applicants to provide specified information by August 17, 2009.

On-Site Insight, the capital planning subsidiary of CAS Financial Services has begun field inspections of the nation’s 1.3 billion-unit public housing portfolio to provide Congress and HUD a quantitative cost estimate for addressing public housing’s multi-billion-dollar capital backlog.

The U.S. Treasury Department recently announced over $90 million in funding awards to five states through the Section 1602 Exchange Program created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan recently announced that HUD will approve the final round of funding applications submitted by state housing finance agencies for funds provided by the Tax Credit Assistance Program (TCAP), through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Tax Credit Advisor ““ August 2009 ““ These new kinds of taxable bonds, authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, are designed to assist issuers and developers unable to sell tax-exempt bonds to finance new public-purpose projects.

The U.S. Treasury Department recently announced that it is accepting applications for the Section 1603 program, provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Governor David Paterson today (7/29) signed into law legislation that improves the New York State Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit program.

Governor David A. Paterson signed into law new legislation that will extend affordable housing for another 30 years to the tenants of the Starrett City housing complex in Brooklyn, the nations largest publicly assisted affordable housing complex.

The U.S. Treasury Department is now accepting applications for cash grants in lieu of investment tax credits for qualifying renewable energy equipment and facilities.