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City Proposes Affordable Housing Project for SeniorsPatch.com
15, the City of Largo is seeking a Commission approval of commitment for $100000 in affordable housing development funding for the creation of Arrington Oaks Apartments, a property consisting of about 1.62 acres of land located west of Clearwater-Largo ...
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Chase Bank provides $4M for affordable housing in Newark
newjerseynewsroom.com
Chase Bank has given $4 million to New Jersey Community Capital to help provide affordable housing as part of its attempt to revitalize distressed urban neighborhoods, especially Newark. The announcement was made in Newark's Fairmount Heights ...
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Wells Fargo Donates $5.53 Million in Grants Across 52 Nonprofits to Revitalize ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"We want to do what we can to make resources available to support efforts led by nonprofits to revitalize neighborhoods in cities that have felt the effects of financial difficulties and a challenging economy." * Affordable Housing Network (Cedar ...
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West Chester hires new community development director
Cincinnati Business Courier
Mike Juengling, the former director of development for Butler County, has been hired by West Chester Township to head up its community development. West Chester Township has hired the former Butler County director of development as its community ...
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Miami-Dade County asks state to move urban development boundary
South Florida Business Journal
Miami-Dade County commissioners approved two applications to move the urban development boundary, testing for the first time the efficiency of a cost-cutting consolidation plan that reduced county departments from 42 to 25. One application would move ...
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City hasn’t decided to scrap Community Development Block Grants
Battle Creek Enquirer
A letter dated Tuesday sent to applicants for public service grants under the Community Development Block Grant program said budget cuts approved by Congress had forced the city to eliminate the public service awards. But Susan Bedsole, the city's ...
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NYC ethics board fines HUD official $10000
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A regional administrator for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development who previously served as an adviser to President Barack Obama has been fined $10000 by a New York City ethics board. Adolfo Carrion, HUD's regional ...
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New program subsidizes buyers of foreclosed NYC homes
The Real Deal New York (blog)
The New York Daily News reported that under the Neighborhood Stabilization Program 2 Buyer Assistance Program, the city will use $4 million in funds from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide homebuyers in certain neighborhoods ...
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Affordable Housing Scarce as 400 Line Up for Waiting List
Afro American
“I live inside the church because I can't find affordable housing. I'm praying that I get one of these apartments,†he said through his interpreter. According to DeAngulo, the apartment dwelling renamed in honor of Leroy Hubbard, a housing and ...
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City to tackle affordable housing
Tampa Bay Newspapers
By LESTER R. DAILEY CLEARWATER – Affordable housing was to be high on the list of things to be discussed at the Dec. 1 Clearwater City Council meeting. The council members were to vote on not one, but two items pertaining to that subject. ...
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North Myrtle Beach continues beach access revitalization
TheDigitel
For the past few years North Myrtle Beach has been revitalizing their beach access' and during this year's off-season, the effort continues. The North Myrtle Beach City Council has approved nearly one million dollars to refresh four beach access points ...
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City targets MLK route for revitalization project
San Antonio Express
The event, sponsored by the city and Spurs Sports & Entertainment, is part of a larger effort to revitalize the area, District 2 Councilwoman Ivy Taylor said. The overall project has several initiatives, including repaving streets, replacing bus ...
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Glen Ridge planning overhaul of municipal building restrooms and building of ...
NorthJersey.com
The borough has applied for $180000 in Community Development Block Grant funds. Of that money, $110000 has been requested in order to bring the municipal building's bathrooms up to ADA standards. The council gave the go-ahead to apply for the money ...
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Glen Ridge planning overhaul of municipal building restrooms and building of ...
NorthJersey.com
The borough has applied for $180000 in Community Development Block Grant funds. Of that money, $110000 has been requested in order to bring the municipal building's bathrooms up to ADA standards. The council gave the go-ahead to apply for the money ...
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HUD Budget Cuts Take a Toll on Section 202 Housing
Senior Housing News
Budget cuts sustained across the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the 2012 fiscal year come at a bad time, and without any relief in sight for Section 202 housing, says one senior advocacy group. The HUD budget, signed into law this ...
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Senator Durbin Announces $3 million HUD Grant to Oak Park, Illinois
Examiner.com
By Ellen Cannon Illinois Senator Dick Durbin announced today that the Village of Oak Park will receive a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Grant for $3 million. The funding was awarded through the Community Challenge Grant program. ...
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New city program aims to turn foreclosed home sites into parks
Los Angeles Daily News
"If the city can make an amenity out of a foreclosed house, they can raise the value of the surrounding houses and neighborhood." The program started with the passage of the 2009 Neighborhood Stabilization Program, a federal initiative that encouraged ...
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Hernando County awarded $1.95 million for Neighborhood Stabilization Program
Tampabay.com
Hernando County has been awarded about $1.95 million for the third phase of its Neighborhood Stabilization Program. The program provides emergency assistance to counties and cities to acquire and redevelop foreclosed properties. ...
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Feds to spend part of $2.4M grant to study affordable housing near SunRail
Daytona Beach News-Journal
By MARK HARPER, Staff Writer DeBary Mayor Bob Garcia says he doesn't see how development near the city's future SunRail station could accommodate affordable housing. Yet that's what part of a $2.4 million federal grant awarded to the East Central ...
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SAAG unit wins affordable housing project in India
Malaysia Star
The contract, worth more than RM600mil, was awarded to SAAG's India-listed subsidiary SAAG RR Infra Ltd and its German technology partners to build 60000 “solar-powered affordable homesâ€. SAAG RR's technology partner for the project is Deutsche ...
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HUD grant to aid St. Charles Parish corridor
NOLA.com
"We want to turn that tide toward reinvestment, redevelopment and revitalization." Ways to do that include improving pedestrian access to the corridor and developing housing geared toward middle-income people and retirees who can't afford or don't want ...
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The urban development challenge for the next decade
Central Penn Business Journal
For the next phase of growth that will bring small and mid-cap players into the mix, look to the first two categories — urban and borough-level opportunities. The chatter about “second-story development†in the cities and borough rezoning for economic ...
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Phoenix awarded $2.9 million grant for rail-area development
Arizona Republic
Phoenix is one of 274 communities nationwide to receive the US Department Housing and Urban Development's Community Challenge Grant awards, announced Monday. Phoenix is providing $2.8 million in matching funds for the three-year planning project that ...
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Glen Burnie low-income housing development gets green light
Baltimore Sun
The $10 million project, called Marley Meadows, will be located in the 7700 block of Baltimore Annapolis Blvd., and has been granted a $500000 loan from Arundel Community Development Services, a quasi-public agency. Additionally, the developer has ...
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Urban Development director lists 5BD in Las Vegas
Blockshopper
He is also the director of the Las Vegas field office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and Harvard University's John Kennedy School of Government. ...
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Michigan Receives $7.1 Million in 2011 HUD Sustainable Communities Awards ...
Sacramento Bee
22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- US Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced the recipients of the 2011 Sustainable Communities Grants, including the nation's largest combined total of $7.1 million in ...
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Fears over affordable homes plan
The Press, York
YORK should not be “flooded†with affordable homes according to one city estate agent in response to the latest Government housing policy. Prime Minister David Cameron has announced buyers of new homes should be able to borrow 95 per cent of the value ...
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Michigan-Grand River corridors receive $3 million revitalization grant
Lansing State Journal
LANSING - The tri-county region has landed a federal grant to help with a revitalization effort along Michigan and Grand River avenues stretching from the Capitol to Webberville. The $3 million grant comes from the US Department of Housing and Urban ...
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Feds grant $2.9 million to ‘Reinvent Phoenix,’ light rail developments
Cronkite News
By Rachel Jimenez PHOENIX – A $2.9 million federal grant will help Phoenix create a program to spur affordable housing and commercial development along the light-rail line, a US Department of Housing and Urban Development official said Monday. ...
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$4.9M HUD grant targets action on regional growth
Charlotte Observer
Now that will be done in a bigger way after the federal Housing and Urban Development department on Monday awarded a $4.9 million grant to the Centralina Council of Governments to pay for regional sustainability planning. It will pay to implement a ...
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New York Economic Development Payments Lawful, Court Says
BusinessWeek
The New York Court of Appeals in Albany threw out a suit brought by about 50 taxpayers who argued that loans and grants to public corporations such as as the New York State Urban Development Corp. violated a constitutional ban on gifts of state money ...
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Beaverton receives $1 million grant to develop green, affordable housing and ...
OregonLive.com
By Dominique Fong, The Oregonian Beaverton received a $1 million grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development to develop sustainable affordable housing, jobs and easier access to transportation in the downtown area. ...
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New community services director setting goals
Lompoc Record
The new department he's leading combines parks, housing and community development, the Library Advisory Committee, the Human Services Commission and the Arts Commission for an annual savings of $500000. On Nov. 17, Wallar announced that Renee Bahl, ...
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Regional economic development consortium wins federal grant
Glens Falls Post-Star
"We are looking, just as the governor and Washington now are looking, that things have to be done on a regional basis," said Glens Falls Economic/Community Development Director Edward Bartholomew. A $750000 federal Department of Housing and Urban ...
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BLIGHT WATCH: Nonprofits sought to rehab Old West EndMuncie Star Press
Muncie Star Press
Ashley L Conti / The Star Press MUNCIE -- Nonprofit organizations are stepping up after private developers ignored the city's Neighborhood Stabilization Program 3 project. The city is proposing to use $1.1 million in federal NSP 3 funds to rehabilitate ...
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KC archtects work to create affordable green housing
Kansas City Star
A Kansas City architectural firm is partnering with a local Habitat for Humanity organization to create a new energy-efficient model for the affordable-housing program. Heartland Habitat for Humanity, which works in three Kansas counties and two in ...
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State grants to help clean up Dayton area brownfields
Columbus Business First
The Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund also granted the city of Xenia $2 million to clean the former Hooven and Alison Cordage Co. property and gave Miami County $1.4 million to clean up the Piqua Power Plant Waterfront property, the newspaper reports.
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KC archtects work to create affordable green housing
Kansas City Star
A Kansas City architectural firm is partnering with a local Habitat for Humanity organization to create a new energy-efficient model for the affordable-housing program. Heartland Habitat for Humanity, which works in three Kansas counties and two in ...
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State told to up urban security, housing for posterity
The Standard
Dr Peter Kamau, a researcher on urban development, said the situation could worsen unless investments are directed at upgrading informal settlements, now that 60 per cent of urban residents live in slums. "In Kenya we have a back log of 250000-300000 ...
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$45M ‘revitalization’ under way at Duke Farms in Hillsborough
NJ.com
Part of a $45 million revitalization effort at the 2700-acre environmental education and recreation center and renamed the Orchid Range, it is scheduled to open for visitors in April 2012. Photo by staff photographer George Pacciello Revitalization ...
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$1B homeowner program mainly benefited 3 states
USA Today
Almost half the homeowners aided by the Emergency Homeowners' Loan Program are in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut, based on preliminary figures from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. As previously reported, the program closed to ...
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Peabody preparing five-year plan to expand affordable housing
Boston.com
The firm, Karen Sunnarborg Consulting, of Jamaica Plain, was awarded a $17050 contract, according to Stacey Bernson, the city's assistant director of Community Development. Under the state law Chapter 40B, residential developers can bypass local zoning ...
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Prudential named “Top Company for Community Development”
Citybizlist (press release)
NEWARK, NJ--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU) has been named "Top Company for Community Development" by DiversityInc. The award is one of eight special achievement awards recently presented by the magazine at a November 9 awards ...
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Affordable homes seem to be around every corner in SJ
Stockton Record
That's in marked contrast to just five years ago during the real estate boom, when fewer than 5 percent of San Joaquin County homes were affordable to families making the area's median income. Of course, in the third quarter of 2006, the median-priced ...
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Hercules’ Affordable Housing Lending Program Has Become A $10 Million Mess
Huffington Post
It is one of a series of homes purchased with affordable housing funds. Reporters Bob Porterfield and Jackie Ginley are exploring the financial challenges facing Hercules for The Huffington Post and Hercules Patch. Read their report on municipal ...
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Federal housing programs still raise questions
Daytona Beach News-Journal
The HUD grant in question is Neighborhood Stabilization Program 3, which allows citizens to buy foreclosed or distressed homes, with emphasis on Palm Coast's R and P sections. The financial assistance program allows up to $30000 for the purchase and up ...
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HUD secretary focuses on employee morale
GovExec.com
By Andrew Lapin November 17, 2011 Spurred by a poor showing in an annual survey, the Housing and Urban Development Department is channeling more of its resources into improving employee morale, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said Thursday. ...
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Theaters can lead downtown revitalization
Kennebec Journal
It is not only affordable, but the ability of a renovated theater to play a pivotal role in economic revitalization has been proven many times. Maine municipalities utilizing theaters for downtown revitalization include Camden, Rockland, Skowhegan, ...
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MEPT and Bentall Kennedy Announce Apartment Development at 309 Fifth Avenue in ...
Sacramento Bee
Bentall Kennedy, on behalf of MEPT, will work with an experienced project team, including Urban Development Partners as Developer, Lend Lease as General Contractor and SLCE Architects as Project Architect. Located at 309 Fifth Avenue, on the east side ...
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WNC Provides $8.3 Million in Tax Credit Financing for Acquisition, Renovation ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The financing was arranged through WNC's Community Development Entity ("CDE"), WNC National Community Development Advisors, LLC. WNC collaborated with two additional CDEs to provide NMTC allocations totaling $23.3 million for the project. ...
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Congress slashes HUD’s construction fund for the poor
Washington Post
Lawmakers on Thursday slashed funding Thursday for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's construction fund for the poor and demanded that the agency introduce a series of measures to root out stalled housing projects. ...
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New Development Guidelines For Most Of Resort Move Ahead
The Dispatch
Planning and Community Development Director Jesse Houston explained that there are design standards in place in downtown Ocean City from the Inlet to 17th Street currently. “Those are much more specific because they have an architectural style and ...
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Business-Friendly Renovations Underway at City Hall
Patch.com
By Aiyana Baida The Community Development and Building Department offices in City Hall are getting a makeover. It's part of the city's effort to be more business friendly. In July commissioners approved the $165000 project for a one-stop customer
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HUD Housing Program Helps Disabled
KELOLAND TV
By Perry Groten SIOUX FALLS, SD - A federally-funded program to fix-up blighted neighborhoods in Sioux Falls is also putting a new roof over the heads of those with disabilities. The Neighborhood Stabilization Program has provided more than $3 million ...
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New York Mortgage Coalition Begins Home Finance Program
MarketWatch (press release)
The NSP2 Buyer Assistance Program (NSP stands for Neighborhood Stabilization Program) has dual goals: support sales of foreclosed or vacant homes, and help make home buying more affordable. The program provides a no-interest, forgivable loan that ...
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Mountain View frees up $15 million for three affordable housing projects
San Jose Mercury News
Though they all cater to low-income households, the three selected housing proposals vary widely. First Community Housing has proposed devel-oping 25 units at 1581-1585 W. El Camino Real for residents earning annual incomes less than $21800 and $36300, ...
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Foreclosed Holliston condo will become affordable housing
MetroWest Daily News
By Laura Krantz/Daily News staff In an effort to help low-income families afford homes in Holliston, the town is refurbishing a foreclosed condominium to designate it as affordable housing, officials said yesterday. Instead of auctioning the 44 Burnap ...
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Officials gather to develop downtown revitalization plan
Fremont Tribune
Developing upper level housing in downtown Fremont appears to be one of the top priorities as a downtown revitalization plan comes together. A handful of downtown business and property owners, along with city officials, gathered Tuesday at Country ...
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Downtown utility duct system contract awarded, construction to begin soon
LubbockOnline.com
The Downtown Revitalization Action Plan continues to progress, as the contract for Phase 1 of the utility duct system was awarded Wednesday. By TOMMY MAGELSSEN The Downtown Revitalization Action Plan continues to progress, as the contract for Phase 1 ...
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No public housing solution yet for Hamilton County
Cincinnati.com
County commissioners voted Wednesday to open negotiations with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in hopes of settling disagreements over the planned expansion of public housing in the suburbs. But while HUD officials say they are happy ...
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1800 families in Sioux Falls receive HUD housing aid
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
12:04 pm Rick Garcia, Housing and Urban Development regional administrator, speaks Wednesday during a news conference at a DakotAbilities house in Sioux Falls. / Devin Wagner - Argus Leader/Devin Wagner / Argus Despite receiving $10 million in federal ...
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Urban League of Rochester gets $2.85M in federal funding
Rochester Business Journal
By THOMAS ADAMS The Urban League of Rochester Economic Development Corp. will get $2.85 million in federal funding for senior citizen housing, officials announced Wednesday. The funding comes from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. ...
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$90000 state grant will help Calabasas build a new park
Agoura Hills Acorn
By Sylvie Belmond Calabasas officials plan to use a $ 90050 California Department of Housing and Community Development grant recently awarded to the city to develop a new downtown park that will allow visitors to relax in a natural setting. ...
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National Federation, Opportunity Finance Network, Lower Membership Barriers
Credit Union Times
By David Morrison The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions and Opportunity Finance Network have announced a deal which allow Federation member CUs to join the OFN at reduced rates. OFN is a network of community development ...
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Community Development plans move
Tampa Bay Newspapers
LARGO – The Community Development Department will close at noon on Nov. 16 to move into temporary spaces by the end of the day. Starting Thursday, Nov. 17, the Building Division will be working out of the new conference room adjacent to the lobby on ...
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Investors back rental housing with $60 million
Muncie Star Press
The city has earmarked Neighborhood Stabilization Program dollars from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development for the projects, including $372795 for Jackson & Vine Apartments, a Federal Housing Administration project built in 1940. ...
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Affordable housing fund projects named
Maui News
WAILUKU - Purchasing and rehabilitating foreclosed homes, developing "clean and sober" rental units and renovating affordable apartments in Wailuku are among the projects proposed for the county's Affordable Housing Fund this year. ...
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Midland Downtown Project Gaining Speed 11/14/11
KOSA
Midland, Texas – People have been talking about downtown revitalization in Midland for years but city leaders say major steps are being made in their efforts. It's been a topic of discussion for over 10 years but city council members say, ...
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Affordable housing fund projects named
Maui News
WAILUKU - Purchasing and rehabilitating foreclosed homes, developing "clean and sober" rental units and renovating affordable apartments in Wailuku are among the projects proposed for the county's Affordable Housing Fund this year. ...
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Groundbreaking for revitalized Tuscaloosa neighborhood
Alabama's13.com
The Tuscaloosa Housing Authority (THA) is pleased to announce the official Groundbreaking for the revitalization of the Rosedale public housing community located at 2808 10th Avenue in Tuscaloosa. Rosedale is Tuscaloosa's oldest public housing ...
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Trinity Financial to build affordable housing at Devens
Wicked Local
Of that group, 10 percent must meet the “extremely low-income” guidelines set by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and be restricted to those making 30 percent of the AMI. The remaining 20 percent of units will be sold at market ...
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Guardian roundtable: ideas for urban development
The Guardian
Seoul, in South Korea, one the most digitally advanced, intensely urban environments on Earth, has recently elected a more civil society-minded mayor, who promised to slow development and reconnect communities alienated by glass and concrete. ...
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Delegation Announces Agreement on 400 Million in CDBG Funding for Disaster ...
PoliticalNews.me (press release)
This conference agreement on the FY 2012 Agriculture, Commerce/Justice/Science, Transportation/Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Appropriations Bill now heads to the House and Senate floors for final consideration before being sent to the President ...
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House-Senate negotiators unveil compromise spending bill to avoid another ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — House and Senate negotiators have agreed on a bundle of spending measures for the ongoing budget year, blending cuts to NASA and community development programs while averting cuts to nutrition programs. The approximately $182 billion ...
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Attracting New Development in Inver Grove Heights: Trickier Than It Sounds?
Patch.com
The answer is both, according to a bevy of city officials and community members. As the economy improves, Community Development Director Tom Link hopes the the city's recent efforts will bear fruit for the city's business community. ...
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New housing fund named in honor of Syracuse “icon of community development”
Syracuse.com
Vito Sciscioli, whose track record in housing and community development goes back decades, has qualms, not about the concept or the need, but the name: the Vito Sciscioli Homeownership Opportunities Fund. “That's actually kind of hilarious,” Sciscioli ...
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Miami Conference Brings Together Active Affordable Housing Developers, Lenders ...
PR Web (press release)
Novogradac & Company LLP, a national certified public accounting and consulting firm, will bring together on January 12-13, 2012 those low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) practitioners who are actively investing, lending and developing housing under ...
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Augusta seeks to end concentrations of low-income housing
The Augusta Chronicle
In a complex featuring manicured landscape, cushioned patio furniture, a community room with a flat-screen television and an exercise facility, 12 of the units are low-income public housing. Those residents pay rent totaling 30 percent of their net ...
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CMHA breaks ground on new senior housing complex
NewsNet5.com
Nearly $3 million dollars has been donated by the Neighborhood Stabilization Program to fund project costs. A groundbreaking ceremony will take place at 11 am Monday. Construction projects delayed.
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Public housing changes transform Clay Street in Annapolis
Baltimore Sun (blog)
The area is changing again, with a $24 million revitalization of the city's two oldest public-housing complexes, Obery Court and College Creek Terrace. The structures are being torn down and rebuilt with the help of a private developer. ...
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State Farm awards grant for Neighborhood Revitalization projects
Midland Daily News
This grant was matched by the Midland Area Community Foundation and provided significant financial support in partnership with the Dow Chemical Company, Dow Corning Corporation, and Chemical Bank for Neighborhood Revitalization projects that occurred ...
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Possible fund cuts face train serving Maine, NH
Boston.com
The US House Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriation Subcommittee proposal would slash Amtrak funding and prohibit the use of federal funds provided to Amtrak to support the operation of any state-supported intercity passenger rail ...
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Putting things into context: changing perceptions on Manila’s urban development
Manila Bulletin
Last week, I attended a talk given by a Harvard-educated Pinoy, Benjamin dela Peña, now the associate director for Urban Development of the Rockefeller Foundation. Benjamin led me to view things in a different light. Having worked with governments and ...
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What the National Development Plan proposes
Politicsweb
These problems must be fixed for effective urban development. Compared with the best international standards, South Africa's information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure is abysmal. An efficient information infrastructure that promotes ...
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Putting things into context: changing perceptions on Manila’s urban development
Manila Bulletin
Last week, I attended a talk given by a Harvard-educated Pinoy, Benjamin dela Peña, now the associate director for Urban Development of the Rockefeller Foundation. Benjamin led me to view things in a different light. Having worked with governments and ...
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Town targets grant funds for housing rehabilitation
Buffalo News
By TJ Pignataro Most of the roughly $1 million in anticipated federal funds to be received next year as part of the US Housing and Urban Development's community development block grant and HOME Investment Partnership programs will be allocated to ...
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Greenville Receiving Award From Gov. Perdue
WCTI12.com
Community Development Director Merrill Flood says since the programs inception in 2008 it has helped 16 businesses be able to succeed in Greenville. "Small businesses are the backbone of North Carolina's economy. Supporting our small business owners ...
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City Council to Consider Selling City-Owned Properties and More
Patch.com
By Michelle Simakis City Council members will consider authorizing City Manager Robert Downey to sell the city-owned home at 3979 Bluestone Road, which was rehabilitated with funds from the city's Neighborhood Stabilization Program. ...
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Grants help turn round Palm Coast foreclosures
MyFoxOrlando.com
It's part of a Neighborhood Stabilization Program to help one of the hardest hit cities in the state get it's housing market back. The city received $1.4 million from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development to fund the program. ...
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Affordable Housing Developers Take Over Unregistered Community Garden
NY1
HPD officials said while they recognize the importance of community gardens, the space is going to eventually have 430 units of badly needed affordable housing. The gardeners said they will try to convince the local community board to talk with the ...
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WGCL Atlanta
There's affordable housing at the right price. New in-town lofts are up for grabs and you won't believe this: Someone else will pay up to $60000 for your down-payment with no strings attached. The Lofts at Reynoldstown Crossing along Memorial Drive sat ...
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Deer Park to be Revitalized
Patch.com
The most expensive part of the revitalization will be installing the new, experimental permeable concrete, because most of the base in the parking lot has to be removed and rebuilt. There will also be funding for a landscape architect, said Swezy, ...
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New bill would factor energy costs into home value
ConsumerReports.org
The Sensible Accounting to Value Energy (SAVE) Act would direct the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to update its underwriting and appraisal guidelines to ensure that home loans backed by the mortgage industry's three big ...
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Muskegon County receives $300000 for home rehabilitations, emergency repairs
Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com
The money for the county's two-year grant comes from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and passes through MSHDA. As part of the HUD regulations, the county must hold several public hearings, environmental reviews and other items for ...
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Toledo to demonlish record number of abandoned houses
NewsNet5.com
City leaders said they're able to tear down so many of the eyesores because of more than a million dollars in demolition funding from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. That's four times more money than the department provided Toledo ...
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Michigan Among Six States Joining HUD, USDA and Other Federal Agencies to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Midwest Regional Administrator Antonio R. Riley, United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development (USDA-RD) Program Director of Multi-Family Housing Programs for Michigan Ghulam Sumbal, ...
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Welch Is Out as Wauwatosa’s Community Development Director
Patch.com
Nobody is talking about why she was terminated; public works and economic development departments will take over interim responsibilities. By Jim Price Nancy Welch was permanently removed Friday as Wauwatosa's director of community development. ...
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Michigan Among Six States Joining HUD, USDA and Other Federal Agencies to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Midwest Regional Administrator Antonio R. Riley, United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development (USDA-RD) Program Director of Multi-Family Housing Programs for Michigan Ghulam Sumbal, ...
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New Nonprofit Addresses Global Community Development “One Village At A Time”
PR Web (press release)
"We started onevillage with the goal of promoting local, sustainable community development in some of the most underserved villages around the world, and with the belief that by listening to local residents, starting small and applying assistance and ...
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Poor Chattanooga neighborhoods have more than doubled in 9 years
Chattanooga Times Free Press
by Judy Walton The number of extremely poor neighborhoods in Chattanooga and the region -- those with poverty rates above 40 percent -- more than doubled from 2000 to 2009, a new report shows. The number of people living in the poorest census tracts in ...
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