Housing Grant

Housing grant announcements

2008-06-01T15:05:00.000-07:00

Hud supernofa: public housing self-sufficiency grants!
Public housing family self-sufficiency
Posted: 5/8/2008
Funding source: hud
Eligibility: pha and tdhes
$ available: $12,000,000
Grants available: n.a.
Max grant size: n.a.
Deadline: 7/18/08
Contact information: www.hud.gov
Description: grants to promote the development of local strategies to coordinate the use of assistance under the public housing program with public and private resources, enable participating families to increase earned income, reduce or eliminate the need for welfare assistance, and make progress toward achieving economic independence and housing self-sufficiency.

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Supernofa: housing counseling grants!
Housing counseling programs
Posted: 3/16/2006
Funding source: hud
Eligibility: varies by program
$ available: $47,000,000
Grants available: n.a.
Max grant size: n.a.
Deadline: 7/9/08
Contact information: www.hud.gov
Description: funding for the following housing counseling programs: (1) local housing counseling agencies (lhca); (2) national and regional intermediaries; (3) state housing finance agencies; (4) multi-state organizations; and (5) housing counseling training program.
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Supernofa: section 202 grants!
Section 202 supportive housing for the elderly
Posted: 5/8/2008
Funding source: hud
Eligibility: nonprofits
$ available: n.a.
Grants available: n.a.
Max grant size: n.a.
Deadline: 7/10/08
Contact information: www.hud.gov
Description: funding to acquire, rehabilitate, and/or construct affordable housing for low-income senior citizens.
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Supernofa: section 811 grants!
Section 811 housing for persons with disabilities
Posted: 5/8/2008
Funding source: hud
Eligibility: nonprofits
$ available: n.a.
Grants available: n.a.
Max grant size: n.a.
Deadline: 7/16/08
Contact information: www.hud.gov
Description: funding to acquire, rehabilitate, and/or construct affordable housing for low-income persons with disabilities, including group homes.
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Supernofa: fair housing grants!
Fair housing: (1) private enforcement initiatives (pei); (2) education and outreach initiatives (eoi); (3) fair housing
Posted: 5/8/2008
Funding source: hud
Eligibility: nonprofit and housing authorities
$ available: (1) $19,000,000; (2) $2,800,000; (3) $1,000,000
Grants available: n.a.
Max grant size: n.a.
Deadline: 7/9/08
Contact information: www.hud.gov
Description: funding for fair housing enforcement in three separate initiatives under the fair housing act.
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Buy a HUD Home and Save

2008-06-01T13:36:00.000-07:00

Buyers can save significant money in HUD auctions

Every month, over a half-million Internet users hit the "Homes for Sale" page of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) where they find a daily-updated selection of thousands of highly affordable homes and apartments offered by HUD plus nine other government agencies.

Like most of the housing programs offered by this massive cabinet-level agency, HUD Homes is aimed at low to moderate-income and first-time home buyers. Whenever a lender forecloses on a home insured with a HUD mortgage, HUD first pays the lender the amount owed on the home and then attempts to sell it at auction as soon as possible for no more than market value. The lender gets off the hook and, since the homes are sold at auction, buyers sometimes get them at below appraised market values.

Anyone who can qualify for a mortgage or has the cash is eligible to buy a HUD home.

HUD homes are sold on an as-is, non-warranty basis by auction during an "Offer Period" established by HUD. At the end of the Offer Period, all bids are opened and, basically, the highest bidder gets the house. If the home isn't sold in the initial Offer Period, you can submit a bid any business day. If your bid is acceptable to HUD, your real estate agent will be notified, usually within 48 hours.

In the complex world of real estate deals, buying a HUD home is simple.

Just select a home at the "Homes for Sale" HUD Web site and tell a participating real estate agent that you want to bid on it. Your real estate agent will prepare and submit your bid to HUD for you. (Your real estate agent must submit your bid for you.)

If your bid wins, your real estate agent will help you through the paperwork process. You'll be given a settlement date, normally within 30-60 days, and informed of where the transaction will occur. And get this -- HUD will usually pay the selling agent's commission and all sales commissions up to six-percent.

When a property is first listed for sale, priority will be given to owner-occupant purchasers for the first 10 calendar days, described as follows:

All owner-occupant bids received during the first five days of this 10 day period will be reviewed on the first business day following the expiration of the five day period.

All owner-occupant offers received are reviewed and the property is awarded to the highest acceptable net owner-occupant bidder.

If there are no offers during this initial five-day bid period, daily bid openings are conducted for the remaining five-day owner-occupant priority period.

At the conclusion of the 10-day owner-occupant priority period and the property remains unsold, bids from investor purchasers will be considered.

There are approximately 30,000 single-family homes in HUD's inventory of properties, and they can usually be found in every state as well as Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands.

HUD Offering $1000 HUD-homebuyer Rebate

2008-06-01T13:33:00.000-07:00

Over 30,000 HUD homes listed nationwide

The Department of Housing and Urban Development will hand over a check for $1000 to homebuyers who sign a contract to buy a HUD-listed single-family home by Sept. 30, 2002.

Effective June 31, the HUD $1,000 Cash Back Move-In Allowance will be given to the buyer at closing and can be used for any expenses such as moving costs and home repairs. The buyer is required only to close the sale transaction within 30 days after the contract is accepted and agree to live in the house as his or her primary residence for the next 12 months.

"The Bush Administration is committed to increasing the number of Americans, particularly minorities, who own their own homes," said HUD Secretary Mel Martinez. "We believe this incentive program will help more people become first-time homebuyers by purchasing one of HUD's single-family homes."

About Buying a HUD Inventory Home
Single-family homes sold by HUD, a massive cabinet-level agency, are made available at auction whenever a lender forecloses on a home insured with a HUD mortgage. HUD first pays the lender the amount owed on the home and then attempts to sell it at auction as soon as possible for no more than market value. The lender gets off the hook and, since the homes are sold at auction, buyers sometimes get them at prices well below appraised market value.

Anyone who can qualify for a mortgage or has the cash is eligible to buy a HUD home.

All HUD Homes are offered for sale at market value as established by an appraisal. Since the properties are sold "as is" there is often an opportunity for a homebuyer to earn "sweat equity" by making repairs after the sale.

While bidding on HUD homes is now conducted entirely on the Internet, only the buyer's real estate agent can enter bids. When a property is first listed for sale, priority will be given to owner-occupant purchasers for the first 10 calendar days, described as follows:

All owner-occupant offers received during the first five days of this 10 day period will be reviewed on the first business day following the expiration of the five day period.

All owner-occupant offers received are reviewed and the property is awarded to the highest acceptable net owner-occupant bidder.

If there are no offers during this initial five-day bid period, daily bid openings are conducted for the remaining five-day owner-occupant priority period.

At the conclusion of the 10-day owner-occupant priority period and the property remains unsold, bids from investor purchasers will be considered.

There are approximately 30,000 single-family homes in HUD's inventory of properties, and they can usually be found in every state as well as Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands.

For more information, and links to HUD' listings of available properties, see: Buy a HUD Home and Save Money

About HUD Briefly
As the nation's housing agency, HUD works to increase homeownership by creating affordable housing opportunities for low-income Americans, supporting the homeless, elderly, people with disabilities and people living with AIDS. In addition, HUD promotes economic and community development, and enforces the nation's fair housing laws. For more information, see the HUD Web site.

• More Government Sales and Auctions
What does the government have going for it when it comes to online sales success? Diversity. From Treasury bills to wild horses and houses, you name it and a government Web site probably sells it.

Census: 1 in 5 Americans Has Disability

2008-06-01T13:30:00.000-07:00

53 million reported some level of disability in 1997, Census reports

Nearly 20 percent or about 1 in every 5 Americans have some level of disability according to data released by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau on March 16, 2001.

Some 53 million people reported some level of disability in 1997, while 1 in 8 -- 33 million -- reported having a severe disability.

By Census Bureau definition, a person with a disability has difficulty in performing functional tasks or daily living activities or meets other criteria, such as a learning or developmental disability. Persons with sever disabilities are defined as being completely unable to perform one or more of these tasks or activities, need personal assistance or have one of the severe conditions described in the report.

The report, Americans With Disabilities: 1997, is the first comprehensive statistical report on the extent and effect of disabilities in America since passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act.

"Since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, the Census Bureau has collected data that make it possible to relate disability status to a range of other variables, including income, employment, health insurance coverage and the receipt of program benefits," said Census Bureau analyst Sharon Stern about the report.

The Census Bureau stresses that the report was not a part of Census 2000, data from which will be released over the next three years.

Figures in the report show persons with severe disabilities are more likely to suffer economically and less likely to be covered by health insurance than persons with no disability. Among people 25-to-64 years of age having a severe disability, only 48 percent had health coverage, compared with 80 percent for people with a non-severe disability and 82 percent of those with no disability.

Other highlights from the report include:

- Among the population age 15 and over, 25 million had difficulty walking a quarter of a mile or climbing a flight of 10 stairs or they used an ambulatory aid, such as a wheelchair (2.2 million) or a cane, crutches or a walker (6.4 million).

- About 18 million individuals age 15 and over had difficulty lifting and carrying a 10-pound bag of groceries or grasping small objects.

- About 7.7 million people age 15 and over had difficulty seeing the words and letters in ordinary newspaper print (even with glasses).

- About 14.3 million people age 15 and over had a mental disability, including 1.9 million with Alzheimer's disease, senility or dementia; and 3.5 million with a learning disability.

- The poverty rate among the population 25-to-64 years old with no disability was 8 percent, compared with 10 percent for people with a nonsevere disability and 28 percent for people with a severe disability.

- In 1997, 9.7 million people age 16 to 64 had a disability that prevented them from working and another 7.2 million were limited as to the kind or amount of work they could do.

These data were collected in late 1997 from approximately 32,000 households in the panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation that started in 1996. The data are subject to sampling variability and other sources of error according to the Census Bureau.

Disabled Renters' Assistance Voucher Program

2008-06-01T13:25:00.000-07:00

Participating States and Cities

The following states and cities were awarded grants to assist non-elderly individuals and families with disabilities in leasing affordable private housing. For addresses and phone numbers of the Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) listed below, see: HUD's PHA Contact Information Web page at:
http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/pha/contacts/index.cfm

State Name	City	Recipient Name	Number of Vouchers	Grant Amount
Alabama	Montgomery	Montgomery Housing Authority	100	$460,478
Arkansas	Morrilton	Conway County Housing Authority	125	$442,323
California	Long Beach	Housing Authority of the City of Long Beach	200	$1,361,724
Colorado	Denver	Supportive Housing & Homeless Programs	200	$1,001,099
	Denver	Colorado Division of Housing	200	$1,199,114
Connecticut	Waterbury	Housing Authority of the City of Waterbury	76	$436,416
Florida	Deerfield Beach	Deerfield Beach Housing Authority	52	$294,278
	Orlando	Housing Authority of the City of Orlando	200	$1,060,319
	Titusville	Housing Authority of the City of Titusville	75	$378,388
Illinois	Chicago	Chicago Housing Authority	200	$1,593,729
Kentucky	Louisville	Housing Authority of Louisville	30	$175,589
Massachusetts	Taunton	Taunton Housing Authority	200	$1,448,533
Minnesota	Minneapolis	Minneapolis Public Housing Authority	200	$1,595,862
	Minneapolis	Minneapolis Public Housing Authority	200	$1,595,862
Nevada	Las Vegas	Housing Authority of the County of Clark	175	$1,115,834
	Las Vegas	Housing Authority of Clark County	58	$369,819
	Las Vegas	City of Las Vegas Housing Authority	200	$1,582,938
	Las Vegas	City of Las Vegas Housing Authority	200	$1,582,938
New York	New York	New York City Housing Authority	200	$1,484,502
North Carolina	Greensboro	Greensboro Housing Authority	150	$884,150
	Winston-Salem	Housing Authority of the City of Winston-Salem	128	$703,958
Ohio	Cleveland	Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority	200	$1,235,340
	Columbus	Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority	105	$579,789
	Findlay	Hancock Metropolitan Housing Authority	200	$714,641
	Middletown	Middletown Public Housing Agency	200	$1,026,563
	Newark	Licking Metropolitan Housing Authority	50	$224,343
	Newark	Licking Metropolitan Housing Authority	30	$134,606
	Springfield	Springfield Metropolitan Housing Authority	200	$812,476
	Wellston	Jackson Metropolitan Housing Authority	50	$140,840
Oklahoma	Muskogee	Housing Authority of the City of Muskogee	200	$830,697
Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	Philadelphia Housing Authority	50	$372,709
	Philadelphia	Philadelphia Housing Authority	200	$1,490,836
Rhode Island	Woonsocket	Woonsocket Housing Authority	35	$185,011
Tennessee	Nashville	Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency	200	$1,152,249
Utah	Salt Lake City	Housing Authority of Salt Lake City	200	$1,110,753
Vermont	Burlington	Burlington Housing Authority	100	$686,308
	Burlington	Burlington Housing Authority	50	$343,154
Washington	Everett	Housing Authority Snohomish County	5	$39,225
	Longview	Housing Authority City of Longview	100	$470,770
	Olympia	Housing Authority of Thurston County	200	$1,065,673
	Renton	Housing Authority of the City of Renton	52	$459,705
	Seattle	King County Housing Authority	200	$1,642,710
	Seattle	Seattle Housing Authority	200	$2,064,243
	Seattle	King County Housing Authority	200	$1,642,710
	Spokane	Spokane Housing Authority	200	$803,979

Senior Citizens

2008-06-01T13:20:00.000-07:00

Looking for housing options for yourself, an aging parent, relative, or friend? Do some research first to determine what kind of assistance or living arrangement you need; what your health insurance might cover; and what you can afford. Then check here for financial assistance resources and guides for making the right choice. Talk to a HUD-approved housing counselor if you have questions about your situation.

Homes for Sale

2008-06-01T13:18:00.000-07:00

Several federal agencies have properties to sell. In fact, HUD sells both single family homes and multifamily properties. Check them out - one might be just what you're looking for!

Single Family Homes for Sale

	From HUD
	From the Department of Veterans Affairs
	From Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
	From Internal Revenue Service
	From Small Business Administration
	From US Army Corps of Engineers
	From Customs
	From the U.S. Marshals Service
	From the Department of Agriculture Rural Development

What is Public Housing?

2008-06-01T13:16:00.000-07:00

Public housing was established to provide decent and safe rental housing for eligible low-income families, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. Public housing comes in all sizes and types, from scattered single family houses to high rise apartments for elderly families. There are approximately 1.2 million households living in public housing units, managed by some 3,300 HAs.

	Public Housing Fact Sheet
	Public Housing Programs
	Homeownership
	Renter's Kit
	Contact Your Local Housing Authority or HUD Field Office

How to Get Information and Assistance

2008-06-01T13:15:00.000-07:00

These new rental vouchers, as well as all other sources of public housing assistance offered through HUD are administered by Local Public Housing Agencies. For more information or to apply for public housing assistance, start by contacting the Public Housing Agency (PHA) office in your city or a city near you. Street addresses, phone numbers and, in many cases email addresses and Web sites for all PHA offices can by accessing HUD's PHA Contact Information page at: http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/pha/contacts/index.cfm

HUD Grants to Help Disabled Renters

2008-06-01T13:12:00.000-07:00

21 states awarded grants totaling $39.9 million

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced the awarding of grants totaling $39.9 million in 21 states to assist non-elderly individuals and families with disabilities in leasing affordable private housing.

"Because of their special needs, young people with disabilities often face difficulties finding suitable, accessible housing they can afford," said HUD Secretary Mel Martinez. "These vouchers will give them the financial assistance they need to find safe, affordable housing."

Grants from the following two HUD programs and will fund Housing Choice Vouchers to non-elderly disabled families:

Rental Assistance for Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities Related to Certain Developments - $23.5 million

Rental Assistance for Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities in Support of Designated Housing Plans - $16.4 million

By using the vouchers, qualified recipients will be to rent housing units by paying generally no more than 30 percent of their income for rent with HUD paying the remainder.

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2008-06-01T13:06:00.000-07:00

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