Grants

PORTLAND - September 24, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today awarded a total of $1,845,629 to 14 Oregon housing authorities to help residents of HUD-assisted and public housing obtain education an...

Clark, CO - September 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mark Udall congratulated housing agencies in Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Denver, Larimer and Mesa counties on their receipt of $561,597 in competitive grant funds to help families succeed and escape ho...

WASHINGTON, DC - September 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today awarded $75 million in grants to help public and assisted housing residents connect with local services to obtain education and training to find jobs. The funding allows grantees across the U.S., the District of Columbia, Guam, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico to retain or hire 1,500 service coordinators to work directly with HUD-assisted families to connect them to the supportive services that meet their individual needs to become gainfully employed.

WASHINGTON, DC - September 20, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs is awarding nearly $1.3 million for the state of Minnesota to construct a new generator building at the state Veterans home in Minneapolis.

Delegation Urged Federal Agency to Grant Help for Individual Families Impacted by Devastating June Storm WASHINGTON, D.C. – September 20, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — Senators Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin, along with Congressman Nick ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 20, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- New federal resources will provide critical support for homeless veterans in Warren. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today announced that Family and Community Services, Inc. of Portage County h...

September 19, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Gov. Bev Perdue announced today that 18 counties and communities were awarded Community Development Block Grants to upgrade critical public infrastructure in those locations. These projects will improve existing...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 17, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Associated General Contractors of America will continue to provide fall protection safety training next year thanks to a federal safety grant the association is being awarded. The association will use the $120,000 Susan Harwood Training Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to offer the fall protection safety training designed to prevent potentially fatal falls among construction workers, officials said

PHILADELPHIA, PA - September 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced $650,000 in funding to Northampton County, Pa. This is the fourth EPA brownfields grant awarded to the County to clean up contaminated ...

Torrance, CA - September 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Realtors® are the backbone of their communities, often supporting local causes large and small, and volunteering their time to help improve the communities in which they live and work. Such is th...

MONTPELIER - September 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Gov. Peter Shumlin and Vermont’s Congressional delegation today announced the availability of long-term disaster recovery funds for housing, economic recovery and community infrastructure projects...

BATON ROUGE, LA - September 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- “What can I purchase with disaster assistance money?” That question is being asked by many Louisiana Hurricane Isaac survivors who have received grants from the Federal Emergency Management...

September 5, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congresswoman Chellie Pingree today congratulated LearningWorks and the Biddeford Housing Authority on receiving a $685,000 Department of Labor grant to start a YouthBuild program in Biddeford

September 3, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Ohio EPA is considering a request to grant an Urban Setting Designation (USD) for property located at 800 Mogadore Road in Kent. A USD application for the 17.7-acre property was submitted by HzW Environmental Con...

RALEIGH - September 3, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- North Carolina is more energy-efficient than it was in 2009. Homes, schools, college campuses, businesses and government facilities are using less energy, saving on utility bills and generating more ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 31, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senators Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin, as well as Congressman Nick Rahall, today announced $1,959,246 in federal funding to support homelessness prevention, emergency shelter, and related serv...

WASHINGTON, DC - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that nine applicants are finalists to compete for approximately $110 million in 2012 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation grants to transform public and other HUD-assisted housing in targeted neighborhoods.

O’Fallon - August 24, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced that her office has distributed $4.5 million in funding from the national foreclosure settlement reached earlier this year to the Land of Lincoln Legal Ass...

COLUMBUS, OH - August 24, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced two youth service organizations will be sharing nearly $430,000 in grant funding to help the young homeless population.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 24, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court ordered the marketers of three get-rich-quick systems, including “John Beck's Free & Clear Real Estate System,” to pay a record $478 million for deceiving close to one million consumers with phony claims that they could make easy money using their programs. The Order also imposes a lifetime ban that puts three of the defendants permanently out of the infomercial and telemarketing businesses.