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Governor Quinn Announces Major Progress Helping Families Stay in Their Homes Through Hardest Hit...
CHICAGO, IL - July 22, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governor Pat Quinn today was joined by U.S. Department of the Treasury officials to announce the success of his Illinois Hardest Hit Program and urge homeowners to apply for up to $35,000 in mortgage pa...
Rep. Honda Announces $2.8 Million in Silicon Valley VA Grants
Washington, D.C. - July 22, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- This morning, Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) announced the awarding of $2.8 million in grants from the Department of Veterans Affairs to aid homeless and at-risk veterans and their families in Silicon ...
DONOVAN ANNOUNCES APPROVAL OF CONNECTICUT’S DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN
WASHINGTON, DC - July 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced HUD’s approval of the State of Connecticut’s disaster recovery plan to help homeowners and businesses following Hu...
Polis Bill Receives Hearing in Natural Resources Committee
Washington, DC - July 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) today testified before the House Natural Resources Committee, during a hearing on H.R. 2337, the Lake Hill Administrative Site Affordable Housing Act, which Congressman...
Financial Services Democrats Release Principles on Housing Finance Reform
Washington, DC - July 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- House Democrats, led by Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Maxine Waters, today released a “set of critical core principles” they believe should be part of legislative efforts to address...
Robert Hurt Statement Following Committee Hearing Examining Legislative Proposal To End Taxpayer Bailouts Of...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Robert Hurt (R-Virginia) released the below statement following the Financial Services Committee hearing examining the Protecting American Taxpayers And Homeowners Act, a legislative pr...
Keystone HELP Partners Win Energy Financing Award
Harrisburg - July 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Pennsylvania Keystone Home Energy Loan Program (HELP) has figured prominently in another national energy award, as the Council of Development Finance Agencies (CDFA) today named Bostonia Partners as ...
OHFA Board Awards More Than $7.7 Million to Support the Development of Affordable Housing...
COLUMBUS, OH - July 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) Board approved two initiatives to be financed through the Housing Investment Fund (HIF) yesterday. Established in September 2008, the HIF program supports initiat...
Governor Cuomo Announces Flood Recovery Program
Albany, NY - July 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the state is launching the $16 million Mohawk Valley and 2013 Upstate Flood Recovery Program to assist homeowners, small businesses and farms in areas of the Stat...
MAYOR BLOOMBERG ANNOUNCES FIRST EVER CENTER FOR ACTIVE DESIGN TO PROMOTE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND...
New York, NY - July 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor Linda I. Gibbs, Department of Design and Construction Commissioner David Burney and Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas A. Farley today announced a ser...
Office Sector Optimism Growing, High-Profi le Projects on Horizon
PHOENIX, AZ - July 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- There is new optimism in the offi ce market as the sector is exhibiting positive vacancy, absorption, rental rates and sales velocity. Offi ce had been the slowest commercial sector to recover and is fi...
SCHUMER: HALF DOZEN LOCKPORT HOMES AT RISK DUE TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION – URGES EPA...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to relocate six residences along Eighteenmile Creek in Lockport that are routinely impacted by flood waters fr...
Udall, Bennet Introduce Bill to Use Excess Federal Land for Affordable Housing in Summit...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senators Mark Udall, who chairs the U.S. Senate National Parks Subcommittee, and Michael Bennet introduced legislation today to convey 40 acres of federal administrative land from the U.S. Forest S...
Hoeven, Heitkamp, Cramer: Funds Will Help Support Much-Needed Housing, Provide for Least Fortunate
WASHINGTON, DC - July 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senators John Hoeven and Heidi Heitkamp and Congressman Kevin Cramer announced today that North Dakota will receive four awards from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) totalin...
Rebuilding Together and Crate and Barrel Revitalize Devastated Homes in Bergen County, NJ
Moonachie, NJ – July 15, 2013 – On Tuesday, July 16, more than 50 employees from home furnishings retailer, Crate and Barrel, will join with Rebuilding Together, a Safe and Healthy Housing organization that believes Community Starts at Home, to ren...
BEFORE YOU DRIVE A NAIL, ASK ABOUT A BUILDING PERMIT
TRENTON, N.J. -- As Sandy survivors begin making repairs to their homes, there’s one important tool they may need in their toolbox — a building permit.
CONTINUOUS LOAD PATH CONSTRUCTION HELPS HOMES WEATHER STORMS
TRENTON, N.J. - July 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- As homeowners across New Jersey begin to rebuild after Sandy, specialists from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are advising survivors to rebuild safer and stronger so homes and buildings in th...
Hagan Co-Sponsors Bipartisan Bill to Modernize and Reform Broken Housing Finance System
Washington, DC - July 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Kay Hagan is introducing bipartisan legislation with eight of her Senate Banking Committee colleagues to modernize and reform the country's broken housing finance system. The Housing Fin...
Christie Administration Announces Close of Application Period for Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, Elevation and Mitigation (RREM)...
Trenton, NJ - July 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Christie Administration today announced that Sandy-impacted homeowners have until August 1, 2013 to apply for the Homeowner Resettlement and Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, Elevation and Mitigation ...
EPA Provides $1.5 Million to Clean Up and Revitalize Contaminated Properties Across New York...
New York, N.Y. - July 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing a total of $1,465,000 to Nassau and Niagara counties and the city of Ogdensburg to clean up abandoned and contaminated properties. The funding is...
