HUD

Housing & Urban Development Director Shaun Donovan last week traveled to Columbus, Ohio to help popularize the Project Rebuild initiative that has been proposed as part of President Obama’s American Jobs Act.

HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing has released a notice that provides public housing agencies (PHAs) with instructions for operating subsidy calculation submissions in 2012.

The Office of Development in HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs will host an overview of the revised 2011 MAP Guidebook via webcast on October 17, 2011 from 11:30 am to 3:00 pm with a 45 minute break for lunch between 12:30 and 1:15 pm. The implementation of the MAP Guidebook has been postponed until November 1, 2011 to accommodate more time for interested parties to raise questions and make comments about the revisions.

HUD has released the final fiscal year 2012 fair market rents (FMRs) to become effective October 1, 2011. The primary uses of FMRs are to determine payment standards for the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program, to determine renewal rents for expiring project based Section 8 contracts, to determine initial rents for housing assistance payment contracts in the Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy program, and to serve as rent ceilings in the HOME program.

HUD’s Economic and Market Analysis Division has prepared Comprehensive Housing Market Analyses for the Burlington-South Burlington, Vermont and Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, Florida market areas.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R), in partnership with the Office of Native American Programs (ONAP), has just launched a new effort to support and increase sustainable construction in Native communities.

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, and the Office of Public and Indian Housing. The notice contains all regulatory waivers granted during the period of April 1, 2011 through June 30, 2011.

President Obama intends to nominate Maurice A. Jones to succeed the retired Ronald C. Sims for the position of Deputy Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Mayor Peter Carlisle today announced the mission of the Honolulu Affordable Housing Preservation Initiative, which will help to secure the affordability of twelve of the city’s low-income rental properties.

A new Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report finds that the recent House Appropriations vote to reduce funding for public housing in 2012 by $1.4 billion, or 20 percent below the 2011 level, would place a significant burden on the quality of public housing and would likely raise future federal costs of maintaining these properties.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released the newest version of the Multifamily Accelerated Processing (MAP) Guidebook.

The House of Representatives Appropriations Transportation – Housing & Urban Development Subcommittee has released a draft funding bill for FY-2012. It is scheduled to be marked up by the committee today, Thursday September 8. The measure calls for $55.15 billion in discretionary spending across the two agencies, $19.8 billion less than President Obama’s request and $217 million below current spending. The bill would provide $16.7 billion to the Transportation Department, a $3 billion increase over current spending, and $38.1 billion for the Housing and Urban Development Department, a $3 billion cut.