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HOME Underwriting and Subsidy Layering Guidelines Published
Notice CPD-15-11 provides HOME participating jurisdictions (PJs) guidance in the development and implementation of written subsidy layering and underwriting guidelines to meet HOME regulations at 24 CFR Part 92. A PJ is required to develop and use such guidelines to...
Coming Soon to Oklahoma-Rental Housing for People w/Disabilities
In 2015, Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency staff began identifying newly awarded tax credit developments that pledge 10% of their units to targeted populations (people with disabilities, veterans, homeless, and youth aging out of foster care). According to the funding...
HUD 3rd Quarter 2015 National Housing Market Analysis
HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research has released its analysis of the national housing market for the third quarter of 2015. The report contains updates on production, marketing, multifamily housing performance, homeownership, and affordability statistics...
OKC Public Meetings Review and Receive Input re: HUD Programs Action Plan
Public Meetings will be held on January 7, 2016 at 2:00 p.m., and January 12, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. at the Sunbeam Family Services facility, 1100 NW 14th (SW corner of Classen & 14th). The building entrance is handicapped accessible. The City of Oklahoma City...
HUD Publishes HOME and HTF Broadband Infrastructure FAQs
HUD continues efforts to narrow the digital divide in low-income communities served by HUD by providing, where feasible and with HUD funding, broadband infrastructure to communities in need of such infrastructure. Broadband is the common term used to refer to a very...