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Runaway and Homeless Youth Programs Served Thousands of Youth in FY 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Family and Youth Services Bureau is deeply grateful to all of our Runaway and Homeless Youth Program grantees, who work tirelessly every day to meet the federal government’s goal of ending...
Brown Reveals How Ohioans Will Be Affected By Deal Requiring Banks To Pay $8.5...
COLUMBUS, OH - January 15, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) revealed how Ohioans will be affected by this month’s deal requiring banks to pay $8.5 billion to homeowners who were hurt by the mortgage crisis. Brown was j...
UT 13457-01 SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans Available to Utah Small Businesses
SACRAMENTO, CA - January 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Small, nonfarm businesses in 29 Utah counties and neighboring counties in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and New Mexico are now eligible to apply for low-interest federal disaster loans from the...
Save the Date! 2013 NCHV Annual Conference
WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The NCHV Annual Conference provides the nation’s most comprehensive source of training on homeless veteran services, programs, best practices, and resources for service providers and their par...
CYNDI LAUPER JOINS HUD TO SPOTLIGHT LOCAL EFFORTS TO END HOMELESSNESS THROUGH ONE-NIGHT HOMELESS...
WASHINGTON, DC - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Cyndi Lauper are joining the effort to "Make Everyone Count," a national campaign to support loc...
New CFPB rules crack down on irresponsible mortgage lending
WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released rules today designed to prevent mortgage lenders from making risky, unaffordable loans. These ability-to-repay rules require that lenders...
Iowa Finance Authority Awards more than $900,000 in Grants for Homelessness Services in Iowa
Des Moines - January 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Iowa Finance Authority Board of Directors today awarded $900,776 in grants to twenty-seven organizations to assist homeless and domestic violence shelters with costs associated with providing esse...
USICH Report to Congress on Homeless Veterans
WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 09, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- For Fiscal Year 2012, the Senate Committee on Appropriations asked the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) to provide an assessment of the progress of the Department of Housing and ...
IEMA Offers Tips for Protecting Homes, Businesses from Natural Hazards
SPRINGFIELD - January 08, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Illinois is susceptible to several types of natural hazards, including floods, tornadoes, snow and ice storms, droughts, even earthquakes. While it’s impossible to avoid such events, there are sev...
National Alliance to End Homelessness Analyzes H.R. 8
January 04, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- While portions of the fiscal cliff were averted, the bill failed to replace the across-the-board cuts to domestic and defense spending, known as sequestration, with alternative deficit reduction measures. The deal...
SLOW ECONOMIC RECOVERY KEEPS PRESSURE ON U.S. CITIES’ EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER SERVICES
Washington, D.C. - December 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- A survey report issued just days before the threatened sequestration of federal funding forecasts the need for more, not less, spending in the year ahead to support of growing numbers of hung...
Christie Administration Awards $400,000 Homelessness Prevention Grant to HomeFront
EWING - December 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- As part of the Christie Administration’s Season of Service for citizens in need, Department of Banking and Insurance Acting Commissioner Ken Kobylowski today announced a $400,000 homeless prevention gra...
Christie Administration Announces $400,000 Homelessness Prevention Grant as Part of Christie Administration’s Season of...
CAMDEN - December 19, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- As part of the Christie Administration's Season of Service, Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa today visited Catholic Charities, Diocese in Camden, Inc. to announce a $400,000 grant for the agency's work...
Gov. Perdue Announces Solution to the Group Home Shortfall Created by the General Assembly
December 19, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Gov. Bev Perdue today announced her proposed solution for the consequences of a change in the way residents in group homes qualify for Medicaid-funded personal care services (PCS). The change is a result of the G...
Gillibrand, Hochul Announce Senate Passage of Bipartisan Clothe Homeless Hero’s Act
Washington, D.C. - December 17, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congresswoman Kathy Hochul today announced Senate passage of the Clothe a Homeless Hero Act, legislation that directs the Transportation Security Administrat...
Report: Millions of Renters at Risk of Eviction and Homelessness
WASHINGTON, D.C. - December 17, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty released a report showing that, for many low-income renters, the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act is all that stands between housing...
Klobuchar Statement on Decline in Number of Homeless Veterans
WASHINGTON, D.C. - December 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar today released a statement on the decline in the number of homeless veterans. According to a new report released by the Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
VA’s National Director for Homeless Programs Wins Award
WASHINGTON, DC - December 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lisa M. Pape, the national director, Veterans Health Administration (VHA) homeless programs within the Department of Veterans Affairs, has been named recipient of the 2012 Knee – Wittman Awar...
Chairman Murray Statement on Decline in Homeless Veterans Population
WASHINGTON, D.C. - December 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, Chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee and the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development (THUD), made ...
HUD REPORTS SLIGHT DECLINE IN NATION’S HOMELESSNESS IN 2012
PORTLAND - December 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- On a single night in January, 2012, 633,782 people were homeless in the United States, largely unchanged from the year before. In releasing HUD's latest national estimate of homelessness, U.S. Housing ...
VA Also Announces $300 Million to Expand Homeless Prevention Program
WASHINGTON, DC - December 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced that a new national report shows that homelessness among Veterans has been reduced by approximately 7 ...
HUD REPORTS SLIGHT DECLINE IN HOMELESSNESS IN 2012
WASHINGTON, DC - December 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- On a single night last January, 633,782 people were homeless in the United States, largely unchanged from the year before. In releasing HUD’s latest national estimate of homelessness, U.S. Hou...
PA HUD, VA Homeless Vets Team Honored with Housing Hero Award
Harrisburg, PA - December 7, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Pennsylvania HUD and VA Homeless Veterans Collaboration Team, which have established a unique, efficient and effective collaboration focused on eliminating veterans’ homeless in Pennsylvania...
Governor Kim Guadagno Announces $285,000 Grant to Support Salvation Army’s Perth Amboy Transitional Residence...
Trenton, NJ - December 6, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Continuing the Christie Administration’s Season of Service outreach to those in need, Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno today visited the Salvation Army Perth Amboy Corp to announce that the organization h...
West Los Angeles VA Homeless Veteran Treatment Facility Contract Awarded
LOS ANGELES, CA - December 5, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has selected a contractor to seismically upgrade and renovate Building 209 on the north end of the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (GLAHS), West L...
PA HUD, VA Homeless Vets Team Honored with Housing Hero Award
Harrisburg, PA - December 4, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Pennsylvania HUD and VA Homeless Veterans Collaboration Team, which have established a unique, efficient and effective collaboration focused on eliminating veterans’ homeless in Pennsylvania...
Mangano Announces Emergency Winter Shelter For Homeless Residents
Mineola, NY - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- With a wintery mix over the region, Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano today activated Nassau’s Warm Bed homeless program which providing shelter relief to individuals and families during c...
Congress Should Extend Tax Relief for Distressed Mortgage Holders
WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Center for Responsible Lending and the Financial Services Roundtable today asked Congress to extend the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act, which is set to expire at year’s end. “This...
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Announces Homeowner Assistance Grant Program
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - November 22, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced a $10.4 million grant program for organizations that provide housing counseling and legal services to homeowners. The grant funds were secure...
Durham Seeking Nonprofit Applicants for Permanent Housing Funds
DURHAM, N.C. - November 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Durham affordable housing nonprofits serving chronically homeless individuals should take note that additional federal funding is available and that the City of Durham is seeking applicants for it
