News

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development has released the 2011 2nd Quarter Housing Market Conditions Report.

The National Park Service (NPS) has revised the Historic Preservation Certification Application.

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) has completed its review of the regulations implementing Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.

Treasury has announced the next meeting of the Community Development Advisory Board, which advises the Director of the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund.

HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research is managing a Congressionally mandated study of the housing needs of Native Americans, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently signed a pair of affordable housing bills sponsored by Senator Catharine Young.

HUD recently announced an update to its Preservation web page, a resource portal that combines refinancing tools, notices, Section 8 renewal policy and other information its stakeholders may want to know about preserving affordable housing.

The New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority (MFA), has released its 2012 draft Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) for public comment.

California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (TCAC) announced a proposed readjustment of its geographic regional apportionments for federal and state low-income housing tax credits (LIHTCs). The geographic boundaries used for appropriations were last updated in 2004 but the updated methodology proposes using new 2010 Census data for calculating apportionments and the addition of an 11th region: the City of Los Angeles.

The Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) released the Final 2012 Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP), approved by the OHFA Board on August 17, 2011.

On Thursday, August 25, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) released the 2012 real estate analysis rules for public comment.

Preliminary analysis by Novogradac & Company indicates that the HUD proposed fiscal year 2012 fair market rents (FMRs), released August 19, represent decreases in FMR levels for a vast majority of the country.