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1:   (GRANTS) AK, HI Native Institutions Compete for Shares of $3.2 Million in HUD Funds : HUD sets an Aug. 16 deadline for higher-education institutions supporting Native Alaskan and Hawaiian populations to apply for up to $800,000 in money for community development needs in their localities. The funding, given annually, is targeted to s... 07/26/2010 1:24 PM

2:   (APPLICATIONS) HUD Competitive Grant Applicants Must Meet State, Local Anti-Discrimination Rules : HUD institutes new rules requiring competitive grant applications to show they meet state and local laws protecting lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) persons from discriminatory activities. Applicants seeking homelessness grants under t... 06/09/2010 09:57 AM

3:   (AUDIT) OIG Gives HUD Planning Office Clean Review of Risk Assessment Process : HUD's Office of Community Planning & Development (CPD) gets a clean review from the Office of Inspector General (OIG), which could not find problems with the department's risk assessment process in a recent audit. The OIG did the review as part ... 03/19/2010 4:37 PM

4:   (WHITE HOUSE) HUD Hints CPD Budget Increases May be Sought for 2011 : HUD officials offer a tiny glimpse behind a tightly locked door on 2011 budget information, indicating that more community development increases could be sought from Congress. Several HUD officials spoke at the National Community Development Associa... 01/25/2010 3:28 PM

5:   (HUD) HOPE VI Gets Big Increase, CNI to Start Despite Funding Reduction from Senate Version : HUD budget conferees send 2010 department budget funds to both the HOPE VI program and Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) that ultimately will be its successor. Since the House version of the bill (H 3288) was passed in June and the Senate versio... 12/09/2009 10:28 AM

6:   (GRANTS) Applicants Scramble for Healthy Homes Technical Studies Funding : The Office of Healthy Homes & Lead Hazard Control (OHHLHC) has received 27 grant applications nationwide for the $2.4 million available in the program's initial Green & Healthy Homes Technical Studies Program competition. The grant applicati... 11/19/2009 10:07 AM

7:   (GRANTS) Communities to Get Chance for Share of $4 Million in Main Street HOPE VI Funds : HUD offers $4 million in fiscal year 2009 competitive funding to small communities looking to improve affordable housing conditions through its HOPE VI Main Street Program, setting a Jan. 20, 2010 application deadline. The 100-page Notice of Funding... 11/19/2009 09:59 AM

8:   (ARRA) HUD Sends Out Final CDBG, Homeless Stimulus Money : More than 500 communities receive the final $620 million in stimulus funding through the final round of the Community Development Block Grant program and another 100 communities receive $300 million to prevent homelessness. HUD provides the last of ... 09/23/2009 5:21 PM

9:   (CONGRESS) Senate Confirms Marquez as New CPD Office Boss : The Senate unanimously confirms Mercedes Marquez as HUD's new Assistant Secy. for Community Planning & Development (CPD). Marquez's confirmation late June 25 was among the Senate's last acts before closing for the July 4 holiday. The former head... 06/26/2009 4:17 PM

10:   (HUD CPD) Marquez Nomination Moves to Senate Floor : With almost no fanfare, the Senate Banking Committee approved the nomination of Mercedes Marquez as the new HUD Asst. Secy. for Community Planning of Development on June 10. One committee source tells CDD Marquez's nomination cleared the committee ... 06/11/2009 4:48 PM

11:   HUD Offers $242 Million in ARRA Funds for Native Tribes, Alaskan Communities : Indian tribes and Native Alaskan communities can start competing through July 13 for $242 million to aid housing and community development offered by HUD as part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The competitive ARRA gr... 05/28/2009 7:49 PM

12:   (HUD CPD) HUD Inspector General Says LA County Housing Must Repay Sec. 8 Nearly $3 Million : The Los Angeles County Housing Authority is being asked to repay its Sec. 8 program $2.95 million that it charged to restricted funds, following a new HUD Office of Inspector General (OIG) report that the housing authority disagrees with. OIG says t... 05/01/2009 1:52 PM

13:   Clinton Administration HUD Official Tapped as New CPD Assistant Secy : A former Clinton administration HUD official and the current general manager of the Los Angeles Housing Dept. (LAHD), is President Barack Obama's nominee to be the Asst. Secy. for Community Planning & Development. The nominee, Mercedes Marquez, ... 04/22/2009 10:28 AM

14:   HUD Increasing Flexibility on NOFA Grant Application Submissions : HUD officials are amending federal requirements by accepting grant applications for individual Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) by means other than by submitting them via the www.grants.gov Internet site. The requirement to submit using the gov... 04/17/2009 5 PM

15:   HUD Office To Revamp Operations : It's not that HUD now has a lumbering bureaucracy saddled with an antiquated computer system and basement-level morale, Secy. Shaun Donovan has plans for a new bureaucracy to plan how to get the old bureaucracy back in shape. Dubbed HUD Office of Tr... 04/10/2009 2:03 PM

16:   HUD Trying to Eliminate Sec. 108, ADDI in 2010 Budget Plan : HUD officials are trying to eliminate the Sec. 108 Loan Guarantee Assistance Program and the American Dream Downpayment Initiative (ADDI) in the 2010 budget because they believe the programs' rules and functions are shared with larger existing effort... 03/17/2009 1:56 PM

17:   HUD Providing Quick Turnaround on Promised Stimulus Funding : HUD officials, moving with uncharacteristic speed, have acted fast to get more than $10 billion in economic stimulus formula funding – 75% of the total allocated to the department – out to states and local governments. HUD receives $13.61 billion of... 02/25/2009 12:50 PM

18:   King County Executive Tapped for HUD Deputy Secretary Post : Ron Sims, a three-term county executive in King County, WA, is nominated by President Barack Obama as the new HUD deputy secretary to work under HUD Secy. Shaun Donovan managing the dept’s daily operations. Donovan greeted the nomination -- which mu... 02/02/2009 4:45 PM

19:   HUD Will Release Individual NOFAs This Year : HUD will not provide a comprehensive SuperNOFA this year, but plans to publish its notices as they are approved. The announcement is made via the release of its General Section, which is generally released prior to the SuperNOFA. HUD believes that... 12/29/2008 11:29 AM

20:   Obama Taps NYC Housing Commissioner for HUD Secy Post : President-elect Barack Obama nominates New York City housing commissioner and one-time acting Federal Housing Admin. Commissioner Shaun Donovan as the nation's next HUD secretary. If the nomination is approved, Donovan would take over an agency that... 12/14/2008 10:26 PM

21:   HUD to Host Housing Summit Next Week : HUD will present details of its Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) during a scheduled Nat'l Housing Summit expected to attract community leaders nationwide at the invitation of Secy. Steve Preston. The two day affair will be held Oct. 7-8 at th... 10/02/2008 12:37 AM

22:   HUD Preps For Quick Ike Takeover : Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and HUD officials huddled through the weekend preparing to shift housing responsibilities for Hurricane Ike victims to HUD. About the only item left to wrap up the deal is a name for the program, most likely... 09/26/2008 3:46 PM

23:   HUD Field Managers Ask Preston for Possible Grant Process Changes : HUD's national field managers are providing possible suggestions for top brass to consider involving the efficiency of the Community Development Block Grant and HOME Investment Partnership Program that could result in changes to the SuperNOFA grant p... 07/24/2008 5:03 PM

24:   HUD Secy Preston Says Housing Bill Would Harm FHASecure : Even as the House considered a final vote that ultimately sent the controversial housing reform and foreclosure prevention bill (HR 3221), HUD Secy. Steven Preston tossed a grenade into the debate. 07/24/2008 10:43 AM

25:   Cisneros, Kemp Form Fair Housing Commission to Aid Enforcement : Two former HUD secretaries are forming a new bipartisan commission to investigate fair housing conditions with the hope that the findings will lead to better enforcement of federal laws. The announcement is made by Shanna Smith, Nat'l Fair Housing A... 07/16/2008 4:45 PM

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