Please click here for the NSP Notice on Abandoned and Foreclosed Properties. Please click here for the NSP2 Notice on Abandoned and Foreclosed Properties.

For the first time this year, both year-over-year foreclosure petitions and deeds decreased in Massachusetts, according to The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman. Foreclosure petitions - the first step in the foreclosure process in Massachusetts -...

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BOSTON – Monday, June 21, 2010 – As part of the Patrick-Murray Administration's ongoing commitment to boost affordable housing production, create jobs and foster economic growth, Governor Deval Patrick today pledged more than $189.9 million in resources leveraged from...

Moving ahead without a completed budget agreement, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (T-HUD) approved its FY11 appropriations bill on July 1. The T-HUD Subcommittee bill would provide $46.579...

Please click here for the bill text. Please click here for an analysis of the bill from Enterprise.

In the 2011 budget, HUD proposes to launch a multi-year effort called the Transforming Rental Assistance (TRA) initiative to preserve HUD-funded public and assisted housing, stem the loss of affordable units, enhance housing choice for residents and streamline the...

The number of foreclosures initiated in Massachusetts jumped 28.1 percent in 2009 to 27,928 from 21,804 in 2008 but was 5.5 percent below the level in 2007, according to the latest report from The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman. The number of...

From the Technical Assistance Collaborative: Section 811 Reforms The Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act makes long overdue improvements to the Section 811 program by: * Modernizing and simplifying the capital advance program for non-profit sponsors; *...

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