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The Missouri Housing Development Commission’s Board of Commissioners has approved Margaret Lineberry to serve as executive director of the agency.

The Louisiana Housing Finance Agency is in the process of implementing an initiative to allocate its remaining $1.7 million in Tax Credit Assistance Program (TCAP) funds.

The Florida Housing Finance Corporation has launched a Green Building homepage to provide information and resources on green building to the affordable housing development community.

The Ohio Department of Development (ODOD) recently announced that it is making $10 million available to four Ohio entities to spur economic investments through the first round of its Ohio New Markets Tax Credit Program.

The White House, together with officials from HUD, Treasury, USDA and congressional staff, recently hosted a one-day conference entitled,

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) has posted the comments submitted in response to its Request for Public Comment related to the Quarterly New Markets Report.

The data from the 2009 American Housing Survey metropolitan survey of Seattle are now available for download in SAS and ASCII formats from the HUD USER web site.

HUD USER recently added estimated August 2010 employment statistics to the State of the Cities Data System for the largest 50 U.S.

The Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) has released the final list of discussion topics for the Proposal Meetings that will be held as part of the 2011 Housing Credit Program.

The New Jersey Appeals Court recently found that Council on Affordable Housing cannot base local housing obligations on future job and home growth because the growth-share approach motivates towns to discourage growth in order to avoid affordable housing.

The Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund has announced $80 million in awards in the first funding round of the federal Capital Magnet Fund program.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued a final ruling that implements a program to allow public housing agencies (PHAs) to use proceeds of their Capital Fund program for financing activities, including payment of debt service and housing development and modernization activities.