HUD

Two federal lawmakers this week sent a letter to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requesting detailed accounting of more than 1,000 affordable-housing construction projects funded by the Department’s HOME Program.

HUD’s Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Fannie Mae recently announced a joint venture to allow owners of existing affordable rental housing properties to refinance into new mortgages that include funding for energy- and water-saving upgrades, along with other needed property renovations.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released the new area median income limits for Fiscal Year 2011.

HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing recently issued a notice that extends the Administrative Guidance for Effective and Mandated Use of the Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) System (PIH-2010-19(HA)) for another year until May 31, 2012.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is seeking comments regarding surveys to provide HUD with a way to estimate Section 8 Fair Market Rents (FMRs) in areas not covered by the American Community Survey annual reports and in areas where FMRs are believed to be incorrect.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has issued a notice of emergency information collection soliciting comments from the public with regard to the FY-2011 Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) / HOPE VI Program notice of funding availability.

To assist sponsors and owners of Section 202 and Section 811 projects in reducing operating costs, HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research has published Enhancing Energy Efficiency and Green Building Design in Section 202 and Section 811 Programs.

Last week, the House Committee on Appropriations released its draft 302b allocations, the amounts each of the 12 appropriations subcommittees will have available to spend on their respective FY-2012 funding bills.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released its U.S. Housing Market Conditions Report for the first quarter of 2011.

HUD’s Economic and Market Analysis Division prepared a comprehensive housing market analysis of the Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin, Tennessee housing market area.

Last week, Secretary Shaun Donovan delivered the keynote address to the Harvard Joint Center/McArthur Rental Leadership Forum at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) last week invited public comments on a proposed assessment of Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian housing needs.