New England Housing Network Federal Budget and Legislative Priorities – June 9, 2010
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Conference Committee Releases Final MA FY2011 Budget – June 28, 2010
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Obama Administration Announces Nearly $73 Million in Housing Counseling Grants – December 23, 2010
WASHINGTON – In an effort to help families find decent housing and to prevent future foreclosures, the Obama Administration today announced nearly $73 million in housing counseling grants to more than 500 national, regional and local organizations. As a result of the funding announced today, hundreds of thousands of households will have a greater opportunity to find housing or keep the homes they have because of the housing counseling and counseling training grants awarded today by U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan.
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DHCD Announces Next Funding Rounds for Tax Credit Assistance and Exchange Programs – December 3, 2009
Please click here to view the Round 4 Tax Credit Exchange Program announcement.
Click here to view the Round 2 Tax Credit Assistance Program announcement.
HUD/DOT issue NOFA for Sustainable Communities Planning Grants – June 24, 2010
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced a groundbreaking collaborative effort designed to help foster planning for more livable, sustainable communities – places where transportation, housing and commercial development investments are coordinated to better serve the people living in those communities.
Together, the U.S. Departments of Transportation (DOT) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD), for the first time ever, will join forces to award up to $75 million in funding – $35 million in TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) II Planning Grants and $40 million in Sustainable Community Challenge Grants for localized planning activities that ultimately lead to projects that integrate transportation, housing and economic development.
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