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(HUD) Department Issues Broad Changes to HOME Program
   (CD Publications) - A list of rules changes to HUD’s HOME program include a provision to hasten preservation of financially troubled HOME-assisted projects at risk of failure or foreclosure. If approved, HUD could allow local governments to apply more HOME appropriations to help rescue troubled proj...
posted 12/26/11 12:21 PM  read complete story

(HOME) HUD Proposes Oversight Rules for Besieged Program
   HUD proposes new rules for the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, requiring program recipients to improve oversight. The proposed rules come as the program falls under heavy fire from Congress and reacting to media reports about waste and underperformance. HUD's new rules, which will be publishe...
posted 11/7/11 1:56 PM  read complete story

(FY 2012) More Funding Sought for HOME, Housing for Elderly, Disabled
   The National Low-Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) is pressing Congress to restore threatened FY 2012 funding to HUD programs such as the HOME Investment Partnerships Program and also wants the lawmakers to reinstate Tenant-based Rental Assistance Contract Renewals. The NLIHC Sept. 30 fired off let...
posted 10/3/11 2:12 PM  read complete story

(HOME) HUD, Stakeholders Defend Program against Claims of Mismanagement
   HUD, public housing and community development stakeholders are defending the HOME Investment Partnerships Program after media allegations of mismanagement in the program's effort to build and rehabilitate affordable housing. A news story appearing in the Washington Post sent ripples through the hou...
posted 5/23/11 10:14 AM  read complete story

(HOME) Hard Times May Cause Erie to Shift HOME Program
   Economic hard times have Erie, PA officials considering shifting the emphasis of their HOME Investments Partnership Program from helping first-time homebuyers to other efforts such as home rehabilitation.Part of Erie's difficulties lay not in demand for HOME money within the homeownership sector, bu...
posted 5/5/11 5:10 PM  read complete story

(FUNDING) HOME Program Recipients Face Double-Digit Reductions in FY 2011
   Recipients in HUD's HOME Investment Partnerships Program can expect to see their allocations cut by as much as 12% when the FY 2011 budget distributions are made. Department officials make their announcements in their preliminary FY 2011 allocation estimates for several formula grant programs, with...
posted 4/26/11 4:21 PM  read complete story

(GROUPS) NCDA Set to Hold First HOME Training Program
   National Community Development Association (NCDA) officials have slots remaining for their first HOME Investment Partnerships Program training session for practitioners, one of several community development training items state and local officials are taking part in this fall. Vicki Watson, NCDA's ...
posted 9/13/10 7:30 PM  read complete story

(HUD) Department Makes HOME Awards for Green Affordable Housing in VT, MI
   HUD issues grant awards for environmentally sound affordable housing efforts in the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, the latest going to the State of Vermont and Washtenaw County, MI. Department officials say the awards -- $250,000 each -- result from HUD efforts in 2009 to recapture funds tha...
posted 4/9/10 4:28 PM  read complete story

(LOCAL) HOME Briefs
   New York: Mount Vernon city officials are seeking the release of $800,000 in HOME Investment Partnership Program money from fiscal years 2008 and 2009 enabling them to begin work on affordable family units. Mount Vernon's Urban Renewal Agency will join the city in seeking the money, which will be u...
posted 1/15/10 10:22 AM  read complete story

(DEVELOPMENT) Rochester, NY Ready to Renovate 246 Apartments with CDBG, HOME Funds
   Officials in Rochester, NY soon will ask HUD to release pending and CDBG and HOME funds to renovate and modernize 22 apartment buildings. The FIGHT Village Renovation Project will include renovations to 246 apartments and a community building along North Clinton Ave. in the city. The buildings were...
posted 10/26/09 6 PM  read complete story