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SBA Offers Disaster Assistance to Tenth District Residents Affected by Flooding
Hickory, - August 9, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Residents and businesses affected by flooding on July 27 can now apply for low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration. These loans are available in Catawba County and the adj...
RI Receives $11.7 Million to Improve RI Affordable Housing
WASHINGTON DC - August 9, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Jack Reed today announced that twenty-five Rhode Island cities and towns will receive a total of $11.7 million in federal funding to develop, finance, and modernize public housing in the...
Hoeven Helps Break Ground on Phase II of Washington Townhomes Project
MINOT, ND - August 9, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senator John Hoeven, along with state and local community leaders, today participated in an open house and groundbreaking for the Washington Townhomes housing project in Minot. The leaders marked the com...
Welch Joins Bipartisan Coalition in Introducing Bill to Encourage Saving for Home Down Payments
WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Last week, Rep. Peter Welch joined with Rep. Joe Heck (R-NV), John Carney (D-DE) and Daniel Webster (R-FL) to introduce the “Creating Homeownership Opportunities Act.” This is bipartisan legis...
Christie Administration Announces Sandy Homebuyer Assistance Program for Prospective Homebuyers
NEPTUNE, N.J. - August 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Expanding the Christie Administration s efforts to assist low-to-moderate-income families with housing opportunities in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agen...
Heck Joins Bipartisan Coalition in Introducing Bill to Encourage Saving for Home Down Payments
WILMINGTON, DC - August 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Representatives Joe Heck (R-NV), John Carney (D-DE), Daniel Webster (R-FL), and Peter Welch (D-VT), today announced the introduction of H.R. 2929, the “Creating Homeownership Opportunities A...
Rep. Vargas Fights to Stop Extreme Cuts to Housing and Transportation
Washington, DC - August 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Congressman Juan Vargas (CA-51) joined fellow Democrats to highlight the devastating effects that cuts to the Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG), being proposed in H.R. 2610, th...
Hagan Announces $250K Federal Grant to City of Concord Housing Department
Washington, DC - August 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Kay Hagan announced today that the City of Concord Housing Department will receive a $250,000 grant to bolster security and safety within its public housing community. The grant is awar...
Congressman Cuellar Hosts Housing Loans and Grants Videoconference
WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX28), along with representatives from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and the United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development...
Wicker Fights to Protect Taxpayers in Federal Housing Bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) is spearheading efforts to guarantee federal housing funding is going to the most vulnerable Americans while calling for new accountability and transparency gra...
Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County (NHS) Teams Up With Volunteers to Beautify...
Los Angeles, CA - August 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- For almost three decades now, NHS has continued making Los Angeles County neighborhoods, neighborhoods of choice by creating BLOC clubs, putting first time homebuyers in homes and revitalizing neig...
HUD APPROVES FIRST STAGE OF MARYLAND’S DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN
WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Jane C.W.Vincent announced today HUD’s approval of the first stage of Maryland’s disaster recovery plan following H...
GARY, INDIANA ENTERS INTO PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH HUD TO ADMINISTER GARY HOUSING AUTHORITY (GHA)...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 2, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- In an effort to restore public confidence and accountability to the Gary, Indiana Housing Authority (GHA), the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced a mutual agreement w...
Menendez Announces $2.1 Million to Support Homeless Programs in New Jersey
WASHINGTON, DC - August 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) today announced New Jersey has been awarded $2,173,288 to support efforts to end homelessness in New Jersey through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Devel...
Tester backs bipartisan bill to improve Native American housing opportunities
U.S. SENATE - August 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senator Jon Tester is backing a bipartisan bill to increase access to safe, affordable housing throughout Indian Country.
Cardin, Mikulski Announce HUD Approval Of $8.6 Million Federal Community Development Block Grant Recovery...
WASHINGTON, DC - August 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski, Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, (both D-Md.) today announced that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has appro...
Quiet Corner Towns Awarded Affordable Housing Revitalization Grants
HARTFORD, CT - August 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senate President Donald E. Williams, Jr. announced today that five towns in the Quiet Corner’s 29th Senate District have been awarded U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Small Cities Gr...
PUBLIC INVITED TO COMMENT ON LINCOLN COUNTY, NEW MEXICO PRELIMINARY FLOOD MAPS
DENTON, TX - August 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lincoln County and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials want to hear from the public about preliminary flood maps for Lincoln County.
Mayor Menino Celebrates Revitalization of Formerly-Blighted Dorchester Neighborhood
WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 31, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced today that 37 Hendry Street, a property key to the revitalization of Dorchester’s formerly-blighted Hendry Street, has been sold to Urban Neighborhood Homes, LLC,...
MSHDA Awards Community Development Grant to Alpena County
LANSING, MI - July 31, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Scott Woosley, executive director of the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA), today announced that Alpena County will receive a $200,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG).
