Louisiana

The Louisiana Housing Finance Agency (LHFA) has released a red-lined and clean versions of its 2011-2012 qualified allocation plan (QAP) on its website.

The Secretaries of the U.S. Departments of Treasury and Housing and Urban Development recently co-signed a letter to Senator Mary Landrieu, in response to correspondence the agencies received from Sen. Landrieu in March.

Louisiana Housing Finance Agency will hold a public hearing to obtain public comments on the proposed 2011 Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) annual grant application.

The Louisiana Housing Finance Agency (LHFA) has announced its tentative timeline of 2011 low-income housing tax credit reservations for competitive applications

The Louisiana Housing Finance Agency (LHFA) recently released a memo that describes how it will award its remaining Tax Credit Assistance Program (TCAP) funds.

The Louisiana Housing Finance Agency is in the process of implementing an initiative to allocate its remaining $1.7 million in Tax Credit Assistance Program (TCAP) funds.

The U.S. Census Bureau has released final tabulations from the 2009 American Housing Survey metropolitan survey of New Orleans in Excel format.

In the five years since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf coast, the New Orleans metropolitan area lost 75,000 housing units or nearly 13 percent of its housing stock. In addition, the median monthly cost of housing rose by nearly 33 percent, from $662 in 2004 to $882 in 2009.

The Louisiana Housing Finance Agency has released a series of frequently-asked-questions, as well as an updated application form for its 2010 low-income housing tax credit funding round.

The Louisiana Housing Finance Authority previously announced a strategy to allocate the remaining TCAP funds for increases in costs for existing LIHTC projects.

In 2009, the State of Louisiana received approximately $39,383,397 in TCAP funds from HUD. The Agency has allocated nearly $36 million, with approximately $3 million of TCAP funding remaining due to developers returning previously allocated funds.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced that the current receivership team, Gilmore Kean, LLC will continue to lead the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) from recovery to revitalization over the next three years.