HUD

The Hurricane Damaged Historic Bastrop High project in Bastrop, Louisiana will completely renovate the old Bastrop High School building as part of a HOPE VI Main Street Grant.

HUD has published a new working paper entitled “U.S. Rental Housing Characteristics: Supply, Vacancy, and Affordability.” The paper reports these findings as part of its overview of the current rental housing market dynamics, in relation to supply, local conditions, the national assisted rental housing stock, and both need and demand for affordable rental housing.

U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that nearly 200 apartment units in New York City will become more energy efficient as the result of $3.6 million in funding being awarded today to Jonathan Rose Companies, a New York-based property owner and developer.

Kentucky Housing Corporation recently announced the reopening of the waiting list for the Section 8 Tenant-Based Rental Assistance Program. Kentucky administers the Section 8 program in 87 counties across the state.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released an update of the Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) data.

HUD has published its quarterly report of all of its approved regulatory waivers.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has made available through its Office of Policy Development and Research special sets of American Community Survey (ACS) data that are not available through standard U.S. Census Bureau products.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Policy Development and Research recently published the overall Physical Inspection Scores of HUD-assisted and subsidized properties to the HUD USER website.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released a report of its Tax Credit Assistance Program (TCAP) activities that provides the amount of funds committed and dispersed for TCAP-funded projects, and total grant commitments for state housing agencies.

The Alabama Housing Finance Agency’s Board of Directors approved the 2010 Qualified Allocation Plan and 2010 HOME Action Plan, for administering the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and HOME Programs, respectively, on December 16.

The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate conferees have agreed to a $446.8 billion omnibus appropriations bill (HR 3288). This “˜omnibus’ legislation includes the Transportation-HUD appropriations measure as well as the Commerce-Justice-Science, Financial Services, Labor-Health and Human Services, Milcon-VA, and State-Foreign Operations bills.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has signed legislation that establishes a new chapter regarding publicly assisted affordable housing, which includes a wide variety of federally and state assisted rental housing projects, including Section 8, federal and state low-income housing tax credits, Section 221(d)(4), and others.