HUD

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. 

The $30 million HUD Grant, the first ever awarded to a community in Arizona, will leverage $185 Million of additional funding to provide over 1,000 families with new, high-quality, affordable and market-rate housing, along with significant neighborhood improvements.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI), would authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to carry out a housing choice voucher mobility demonstration to encourage families receiving such voucher assistance to move to lower-poverty areas and expand access to opportunity areas.

Florida’s Action Plan, which oversees $616 million, includes $100 million for workforce affordable rental new construction.

HUD recently published two Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) federal notices that codify FY 2018 Appropriations Act provisions (including authority for a substantial increase of public housing units) as well as revised HUD policies encompassing five innovations to improve RAD.

350 attendees packed HUD’s auditorium to learn about topics including resident rights and protections, the importance of strategic planning, and innovative uses of RAD to achieve local objectives.

The proposal would reorganize several aspects of the Federal Government, with affordable housing and GSE reform in the mix.

Due to procedural rules, Congress had until June 22 to pass the rescissions with a simple majority.

HUD has released a new FAQ document for executing Section 8(bb) transfers, which allows for the transfer of budget authority from a terminated/expiring Project-Based Rental Assistance HAP contract to a new or existing PBRA HAP contract.

The addendum provides interested parties with a list and map of eligible parishes in which rural pool projects must be located to compete for Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Funds.