HUD & LOMOD News
WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan today allocated $400 million in emergency aid to help communities in eight states to recover from presidentially declared natural disasters in 2011. Provided through HUD's Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program, these grants will support long-term disaster recovery efforts in areas with the greatest extent of 'unmet need.'
WASHINGTON - Today, Acting Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Commissioner Carol J. Galante announced the latest in a series of steps to protect and strengthen the FHA's Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund, while enabling the agency to continue to fulfill its mission to provide access to homeownership for qualified borrowers.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today awarded $6.8 million to help local communities across this country to assess the nature and scope of their homeless challenge as part of a broader Administration goal of preventing and ending homelessness. The technical assistance grants awarded today will ultimately help state and local planning organizations or 'continuums of care' to improve data collection and reporting that is a critical part of designing their responses to homelessness.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced that it is launching a Section 3 Business Registry pilot program in Washington, D.C. that will expand job opportunities for low-income people and public housing residents by maintaining a registry of businesses that currently hire them. Additionally, HUD will implement the pilot program in New Orleans, Detroit, Los Angeles and Miami, to give contracting agencies and low-income residents a single source of information to find eligible Section 3 businesses and job opportunities.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that it is making available $110 million in grants to transform public and assisted housing and to revitalize communities. Appearing in today's Federal Register is the Notice of Funding Availability, the federal application, for the FY 2012 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Program. Read HUD's funding notice.
Property owners and management agent staff deserve to be recognized for all the hard work they do on a daily basis to maintain their properties and ensure compliance with HUD’s countless regulations and requirements. With the end of LOMOD’s third quarter ACC year (June to August), LOMOD would like to acknowledge the properties that have earned at least an Above Average rating on their recent Management and Occupancy Review. The properties are:
Vista Tower
Foothill Villas
Mount Rubidoux Manor
Duarte Gardens
Reseda Park Apts
L.A.Pro III
St....
TO: All Multifamily Project Owners
FROM: Janet M. Golrick, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing Programs
SUBJECT: Impact of HUD’s Fiscal Year 2012 Budget on Section 8 Project Based Rental Assistance
On November 18, 2011, President Obama signed HUD’s Fiscal Year 2012 budget into law, which provides the Department with funding through September 30, 2012. As Secretary Donovan said in announcing the passage of the Department’s budget last Friday, HUD’s “final budget protects the vulnerable American families currently assisted by our rental assistance and...
The Resident’s Rights & Responsibilities Brochure (English version) is now available in Braille. Copies of the document in Braille are available from the Multifamily Housing Clearinghouse. The Clearinghouse can be reached by calling 1-800-685-8470. There is a limit of 20 documents per order. The document is not available online. The brochure (non-Braille) is also available in other languages (Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese, Farsi, French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese). These translated versions of the...
On September 20, 2011 Notice H 2011-25, Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) & You Brochure – Requirements for Distribution and Use was issued. This Notice revises Notice 2010-02, which was issued prior to EIV use becoming mandatory on January 31, 2010. The instructions to owners and management agents (O/As) remain the same on the distribution and use of the EIV & You brochure.
The Weatherization Assistance Program provides funding for free weatherization and energy efficiency upgrades to eligible low-income renters and owners. As of August 31st, 2011, $62 million in federal Weatherization Assistance Program funds were unexpended in California.
Multifamily property owners must act now to access these funds before the federal funding expires on March 31, 2012. Up To $6,500 per unit in no cost weatherization services and upgrades are available. The weatherization program installs advanced technologies, leading to more energy savings, which helps maintain...