Housing & Development

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 6, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Carol Morgan, of mRELEVANCE LLC in Atlanta, was recently sworn in as the 2014 chair of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Professional Women in Building (PWB) Council during the International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas

WASHINGTON - March 6, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced $2 million in grants to stimulate job growth and business opportunities in chronically underserved rural areas along the U.S.-Mexico border region.

WASHINGTON - March 6, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan today unveiled HUD’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal. This year The President’s Budget provides a roadmap for accelerating economic growth, expanding opportunity for all Americans, and ensuring fiscal responsibility. The Budget adheres to the 2015 spending levels agreed to in the Bipartisan Budget Act and shows the choices the President would make at those levels.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 5, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Sales of new single-family houses in January 2014 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 468,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Census Bureau

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 5, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) today commended the House for passing flood insurance legislation that will benefit home buyers and home owners and provide a boost to home building and remodeling, while providing certainty and financial stability to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 5, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- As Congress considers major policy decisions this year, they must take care not to lose sight of the one-third of the country that rents and the $1.1 trillion economic impact the apartment industry and its residents contribute to the economy annually. This is the key takeaway from the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) and National Apartment Association (NAA) 2014 legislative and regulatory priorities released today

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 5, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Total construction spending in January posted the steepest year-over-year increase since 2006, with growth in public construction as well as private residential and nonresidential spending, according to an analysis of new Census Bureau data by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). Association officials warned that federal investments in highway repairs could decline rapidly this summer because of funding shortfalls, undermining the sector's recovery

Washington, D.C. - March 5, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- The American Institute of Architects (AIA) today issued the following statement in reaction to the tax reform proposal introduced today by Rep. Dave Camp, (R-Michigan). Please attribute to AIA CEO Robert Ivy, FAIA

Washington, D.C. - March 4, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and nearly 1,000 businesses from across the country today urged Congress to reject special interest efforts to repeal the law setting goals for reducing fossil fuel use in federal buildings by 2030.

BOSTON - March 4, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) --– A Dominican national living in Medway was convicted yesterday of fraudulently receiving more than $120,000 in federal housing funds.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 26, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Though the average size of new homes keeps getting bigger, there is more to this home buying trend than meets the eye, according to Census Bureau data presented by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) during the International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas

BOCA RATON, Fla. - February 27, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- With a growing emphasis on commercial real estate, the evolving real estate industry and luxury real estate, the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) offers 25 categories to recognize excellence in the extremely broad field of real estate journalism which runs the gamut from residential, commercial and mortgage finance to public policy, sustainable urban and home design, among others.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 27, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- According to a comprehensive new report, there is a startling contrast in economic prosperity between successful and struggling American communities. America is divided into nine different community profiles, ranging from the successful — the “Affluent Metroburbs” — to the genuinely troubled — the “Endangered Communities.” Fifty percent of the American communities studied are struggling to find their way forward after the Great Recession.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 26, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Kevin Kelly, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder and developer from Wilmington, Del., issued the following statement on flood insurance legislation pending in the House:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 21, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA) Board recently awarded $1.16 million in tax credit allocation to Allies & Ross Management and Development Corporation (the development arm of the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh) and McCormack Baron Salazar, Inc. for the Larimer/East Liberty Phase I development. This allocation will provide tax credit equity in the amount of roughly $11 million toward this initiative

WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 21, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Construction charity organization AGC Charities, Inc. announced today that it will build a new equestrian center for a local charity group that provides equestrian programs and activities for veterans, their families and local first responders. As part of its annual Operation Opening Doors effort, contractors will donate their time, expertise and money to create a new facility for

WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 21, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- CHFA Asset Management staff, in conjunction with Spectrum Enterprises, will be conducting the following LIHTC Compliance Conferences in the month of April, 2014. Both conferences will be held at the Hawthorne Inn, located at 2421 Berlin Turnpike, Berlin

DULUTH - February 21, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of a $250,000 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant to the City of Duluth to fund green infrastructure projects to improve water quality in the Lake Superior Basin. Duluth is the first of 16 cities to receive funding in the initial round of EPA’s new Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Shoreline Cities grant program

WASHINGTON, D.C. - February 21, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lee & Associates-North San Diego office has negotiated the $6.15 million sale of 17 land lots, located on Pio Pico Drive in Carlsbad, Calif., to the country’s largest privately-owned homebuilder, Shea Homes.

HARRISBURG, - February 20, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- State Sen. Judy Schwank today hailed the recent approval by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency of nearly $1.4 million in low-income housing tax credits to support two housing development projects in the City of Reading.