HUD

The U.S. Department of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is conducting a national study of Disaster Housing Assistance Program (DHAP) families who transitioned from stepped-up rents and $0 rent to market rate or assisted housing and to track their housing, employment, and financial outcomes over time.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today released revised fiscal year (FY) 2011 income limits for certain areas.

HUD is soliciting input on how to improve the Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant NOFA at the Choice Neighborhoods Listening Session in DC from 2:30 ““ 4:30pm on Friday, July 15.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today released a study entitled, “Capital Needs in the Public Housing Program” that finds the nation’s 1.2 million public housing units need an estimated $25.6 billion for large scale repairs.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is soliciting comments from the public to provide HUD information regarding the Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program NOFA applications. Comments are due by July 25, 2011.

HUD is seeking comments on alternative survey methodologies to collect gross rent data for specific areas in a relatively fast and accurate way that may be used to estimate and update Section 8 Fair Market Rents (FMRs) in areas where FMRs are believed to be incorrect and data from the American Community Survey is not available at the local level.

HUD is soliciting comments from potential applicants with regard to the Energy Innovation Fund ““ a new pilot program for increasing the energy efficiency of multifamily housing.

Affordable rental housing is the subject of Department of Housing and Urban Development’s spring 2011 issue of Evidence Matters. The issue centers on the role rental housing policy plays in housing and community development.

We are pleased to announce that online registration and hotel reservations are now open for the National Council of Affordable Housing Market Analysts Affordable Housing Underwriting Conference & Annual Meeting.

Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Ron Sims recently announced that he will retire from public service and return to his home & family in Seattle, WA.

MaineHousing has announced that it will hold a series of public forums to develop the State’s 2012 Consolidated Plan.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan recently published an op-ed piece in the Washington Post in response to a front-page story last month entitled, “Million Dollar Wasteland,” which criticized the management of HUD’s HOME Program.