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WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 12, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today announced $5.9 million in grants to help homeless and at-risk veterans and their families. The funds are provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs S...

HARRISBURG - July 9, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency today launched its Mortgage Credit Certificate (MCC) Program, which provides a limited tax credit for eligible homebuyers. A mortgage credit certificate lets qualified homebuyers claim a tax credit that reduces, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, their federal income tax liability, if any, for the life of the loan. The mortgage credit certificate provides this benefit as long as the home remains the homeowners’ primary residence.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Through the voluntary efforts of the city of Chardon and Chardon Property Development LLC (the volunteers), an industrial brownfield has been investigated and remediated under Ohio EPA’s Voluntary Action Program (VAP) and is ready for redevelopment.

BOSTON, MA - June 26, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- MassHousing announced today that Patriot Community Bank of Woburn is an approved lender of the "Get the Lead Out" lead paint removal loan program

MOUNDRIDGE, KS - June 26, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- In honor of National Homeownership Month, officials from Kansas Housing Resources Corporation (KHRC), the City of Moundridge, the Citizens State Bank and the Moundridge Chamber of Commerce celebrated...

WASHINGTON, DC - June 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- HOPE NOW, the voluntary, private sector alliance of mortgage servicers, investors, mortgage insurers and non-profit counselors, released its April 2013 loan modification data. An estimated 70,000 homeowners received permanent, affordable loan modifications from mortgage servicers during the month. This total includes modifications completed under both proprietary programs and the government’s Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP).

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement in response to yesterday’s T-HUD Appropriations subcommittee markup of the FY 2014 Transportation, Housing and Urb...

Washington, DC - June 20, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) - Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) announced two grants through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Housing Counseling Program to help provide individuals or families with a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Mullin last week introduced H.R. 2378, the Impact Aid Fairness and Equity Act of 2013, which deals directly with the Impact Aid federal property program.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Fannie Mae (FNMA/OTC) priced its sixth Multifamily DUS® REMIC in 2013 totaling $1.02 billion under its Fannie Mae Guaranteed Multifamily Structures (Fannie Mae GeMSTM) program on June 12, 2013.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Ramsey Alwin, Senior Director of Economic Security at the National Council on Aging (NCOA), will testify tomorrow before a Senate subcommittee with oversight of the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM), the federal reverse mortgage program for seniors

Washington, DC - June 14, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Cong. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) is pleased that the House has passed the Reverse Mortgage Stabilization Act (H.R. 2167) which provides more protections for seniors using the Federal Housing Administ...

BOSTON - June 14, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- A former Quincy man, now living in New Hampshire, was sentenced yesterday for carrying out two elaborate tax evasion schemes and theft of federal housing assistance funds

COLUMBUS - June 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA) announced the recipients of the 2013 Housing Tax Credit (HTC) program to fund the construction, acquisition and rehabilitation of affordable housing units in Ohio. A ...

Salem - June 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Oregon Housing and Community Services Department (OHCS) and Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley announced the launch of the Rebuilding American Homeownership Assistance Pilot Program (RAHAPP), which will begin ac...

Mount Airy, MD - June 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen announced a grant of $70,659 to the Union Bridge Fire Company in Union Bridge, MD. This grant, awarded through the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS...

ANCHORAGE, AK - June 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Under new program changes adopted by Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC), beginning July 1, 2013, Alaska homeowners participating in the Home Energy Rebate Program for new construction may qualif...

Washington, D.C. - May 29, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, Chairman of the Senate Housing Appropriations Subcommittee and senior member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, announced that 260 housing vouchers will b...

Newburgh, NY - May 29, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Representative Sean Patrick Maloney announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded Orange County’s Lead Safe Program with a Lead Based Paint Hazard Control grant and Healt...

Washington, D.C. - May 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) today announced that the New Hampshire National Guard will receive $535,000 to support the Guard's Deployment Cycle Support Program (DCSP)...