The Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness announces a Request for Responses for the Regional Network Innovations to End Homelessness. This initiative offers an exciting opportunity to partner with the Commonwealth to implement innovative strategies that will inform new and emerging statewide housing approaches to ending homelessness.
Please click here for the full RFR document.
In this Special Report, knowledgeplex will provide ongoing coverage of the financial crisis and its effect on our economy and our communities.
Read the special report here.
During 2009, the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development intends to continue its long-standing commitment to the tax credit program by selecting worthy and eligible projects that are highly ready to proceed and capable of attracting interest from remaining investors.
In preparing the 2009 Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP), as required by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, DHCD has attempted to balance four primary goals:
investments;
have always been important to DHCD.
HUD’s new Neighborhood Stabilization Program will provide emergency assistance to state and local governments to acquire and redevelop foreclosed properties that might otherwise become sources of abandonment and blight within their communities. The Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) provides grants to every state and certain local communities to purchase foreclosed or abandoned homes and to rehabilitate, resell, or redevelop these homes in order to stabilize neighborhoods and stem the decline of house values of neighboring.
Read HUD’s News Release for Allocations
President Obama signed S. 896 on May 20, 2009. This bill includes a nationwide 90 day preeviction notice requirement for tenants in foreclosed properties. The provisions of the bill are effective on enactment, May 20, 2009.
Specifically, the new law will require that the immediate successor in interest at foreclosure
Please click here to read the memo from the NLIHC on S. 896.