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New HOME Monthly Report: HOME Grant Specific Commitment and Disbursement Summary Report
Beginning with the December 31, 2019 HOME monthly reports, HUD is posting a new HOME Grant Specific Commitment and Disbursement Summary Report. This new report replaces the HOME Grant Specific Deadline Compliance Status Report. The Grant Specific Commitment and...
Census Bureau’s Innovative LEHD Program on Local Workforce Dynamics Turns 20
What began as a small-scale startup, twenty years ago, has become the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD), a source of innovative data products, including Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI), OnTheMap, Job-to-Job...
HUD Issues Notice CPD-20-01: Four-Year Completion Requirement for HOME-Assisted Projects
HUD released Notice CPD-20-01: Four-Year Completion Requirement for HOME-Assisted Projects. This Notice guides HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) participating jurisdictions (PJs) regarding the requirement that HOME-assisted projects be completed within four...
HUD Grantees: URA Notice of Proposed Rule Making (49 CFR Part 24) -Comments due by: March 17, 2020
The U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration acting as Lead Federal Agency for the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 4601 et seq. (URA), is proposing to amend and update 49...
CDBG and Housing Rehabilitation
Per HUD's latest funding matrix reports, the majority of Oklahoma cities receiving HUD Community Development Block Grant funds invest in housing rehabilitation (Edmond, Enid, Lawton, MWC, Norman, OKC, Shawnee, and Tulsa). The exceptions are the city of Moore, Tulsa...