HUD

HUD has announced the addition of a preservation web page to the Multifamily website.

NH&RA is pleased to offer .PDF versions of the PowerPoint slides presented at the 2011 Summer Institute & New Markets Tax Credit Symposium.

The Obama Administration has announced that it has named Carol Galante as the acting commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).

HUD’s Economic and Market Analysis Division has prepared three new Comprehensive Housing Market Analyses for the following markets

The Center on Budget & Policy Priorities recently released a new report suggesting that there is no evidence that HUD’s Section 8 rental assistance programs for low-income families (Housing Choice Voucher and Project-Based Rental Assistance programs) are crowding out spending on other HUD programs, despite recent concerns from several lawmakers.

HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) recently launched The Edge, a new online magazine that provides a comprehensive look at PD&R research, periodicals, and publications covering topics such as Community Development, Fair Housing, Housing Markets, Neighborhood Revitalization, Rental Housing, Affordable Housing, and Sustainability.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently announced the mortgage insurance premiums (MIPs) for FHA Multifamily Housing, Health Care Facilities, and Hospital Mortgage Insurance programs that have commitments to be issued or reissued in FY 2011.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is soliciting public comments by September 18 on a proposed rule that would revise current requirements for physical needs assessments (PNAs) for public housing properties.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released the Components of Inventory Change (CINCH) and Rental Market Dynamics reports for 2007-2009.

In response to a year long Washington Post investigation titled “Million Dollar Wasteland” a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers is calling on Congress to probe the nation’s housing-construction program for the poor, citing years-long delays and other breakdowns that have thwarted the production of hundreds of affordable-housing projects.

HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research is soliciting abstracts for presentations at the 2nd Annual American Housing Survey User Conference, scheduled for the Spring of 2012. Interested scholars and professionals are invited to submit research papers that apply the special features of the AHS datasets to issues of current interest.

HUD is soliciting comments from the public on the Tenant Resource Network (TRN) Program.