HUD

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.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Policy Development & Research has published a Regulatory Impact Analysis for the Housing Trust Fund, which was established by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 to expand the supply of affordable rental units, and increase homeownership opportunities for extremely low- and very low-income households.

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.

The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA) established a Housing Trust Fund to be administered by HUD to provide grants to States to increase and preserve the supply of rental housing for extremely low- and very low-income families, including homeless families, and to increase homeownership for extremely low- and very low-income families. HUD has issued a proposed rule for allocating funds from the Housing Trust Fund.

Representative James Himes (D-Conn.) has introduced new legislation (HR 4106) to make grants or loans to owners of Federally Assisted Housing projects to make green retrofit improvements.

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Representative Mary Jo Kilroy (D-OH) will introduce legislation (HR 4099) this week to facilitate retrofitting of HUD assisted properties. NH&RA’s Council For Energy Friendly Affordable Housing (CEFAH) has been working with Representative Kilroy, a junior member of the majority on the House Financial Services Committee, to draft this important bill.