HUD

On Monday, September 10, HUD launched a variety of enhancements to the RAD Resource Desk to allow users to more easily manage their RAD transactions.

In the leadership message, director of PD&R’s Housing and Demographic Analysis Division Shawn Bucholtz discusses the release of the 2017 American Housing Survey (AHS) data.

On September 6, the tenth anniversary of the federal government’s takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, retiring House Financial Services Committee chair Jim Hensarling (R-TX) released a discussion draft for the Bipartisan Housing Finance Reform Act. The measure is co-sponsored by Reps. John Delaney (D-MD) and Jim Himes (D-NY) and would eliminate Fannie Mae […]

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development issued an Audit Report on August 31, 2018 entitled “REAC Could Improve Its Inspections Processes and Controls.”  The objective of the auduit was to determine whether REAC had adequate processes for and controls over the certification and monitoring of contracted […]

HUD has announced that Tony Ramirez, a 20-year HUD veteran who has served the past 14 years as director of HUD’s Reno, Nevada field office, will serve as the new Oregon Field Office Director.

HUD has issued a notice updating the FY 2019 FMRs. It also enumerates the procedures for Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) and other interested parties to request reevaluations of their FMRs, as required by HOTMA. To help inform PHAs’ decisions concerning reevaluation requests, this notice briefly addresses HUD’s May 30, 2018 notice regarding the use of […]

A lawsuit by not for profit fair housing advocacy groups against HUD to reinstate an assessment tool for local governments to measure progress in meeting Fair Housing requirements was dismissed in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia on Friday, August 17, at the request of cabinet department.

Due to last week’s release of the Developer fee worksheet and its applicability to current open Notices of Funding Availability (NOFA), the California Department of Housing and Community Development is extending the deadlines for National Housing Trust Fund Program (NHTF) and HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) application deadlines as follows: For NHTF Applicants: New application […]

The notice poses 8 questions that HUD is specifically interested in hearing about from stakeholders as it determines how to streamline and enhance Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing regulations.

The Senate today passed a four spending bill package (HR 6147), including its Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development bill (S. 3023) which would increase appropriations for HUD by 4% over last year’s funding amount, while the House version would increase HUD funding by roughly 2%.

The City of Shreveport and the Housing Authority of the City of Shreveport were awarded a $24.2 million FY2017 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant for the Allendale, Ledbetter Heights, and West Edge neighborhoods. A once thriving arts and music district, the target neighborhoods experienced sharp population decline in the 1970s. Today, the neighborhoods are challenged with […]

McCormack Baron Salazar is the on-site housing developer for projects in Tulsa, OK and Baltimore, MD.