HUD

National Housing & Rehabilitation Association is pleased to announce that it has released all PowerPoint slide presentations from the 2010 Summer Institute & Pre-Conference Symposium on New Markets Tax Credits.

The Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) Mortgagee Review Board has published a public notice that announces several administrative actions against FHA-approved lenders who failed to meet its requirements.

On July 21, President Obama signed the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 (H.R. 4173) into law, the most significant financial reform legislation since the Depression.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research has made available an interactive, historical timeline of key events, programs and legislation that has helped shape the nation’s housing policy since the 1930s.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently provided guidelines that an agency must use in conducting subsidy layering reviews for newly constructed and rehabilitated structures combining other forms of government assistance, and Section 8 project-based voucher assistance.

Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) Commissioner David Stevens recently announced plans to implement a series of changes to the multifamily insurance programs that will update underwriting policies, increase lender and underwriter quality, and align loan application, submission and approval standards.

Members of NH&RA’s HOPE VI Council had a productive meeting with key officials of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development at the Association’s recent Spring Policy Forum, May 20-21 in Washington, DC.

The U.S. House of Representatives amended and passed HR 4899 (The Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2010). Although previously passed by the Senate, due to House amendments, the Senate will need to reconsider the measure.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released its 2009 American Housing Survey (AHS), a comprehensive analysis of the characteristics of U.S. housing units and their occupants.

The House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing & Urban Development has released the Chairman’s mark-up for its FY-2011 the HUD Funding Bill.

HUD has published its quarterly notice of all regulatory waivers that HUD has approved.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released a notice announcing that HUD will allow Section 8 income limits to decrease beginning with the FY-2010 income limits, but will limit all annual decreases to no more than 5 percent, and limit all annual increases to 5 percent or twice the change in national median family income, whichever is greater.