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Housing News
June 21, 2011
State Updates
Administration Releases FY2011 Capital Budget
Last month, the Patrick/Murray Administration released the Commonwealth’s FY2011 capital budget. The capital budget for affordable housing is level-funded at $168 million.
June 21, 2011
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June 21, 2011
The full House of Representatives and the Senate Committee on Appropriations have approved bills that would provide adequate funding in 2011 to renew all Housing Choice (“Section 8”) vouchers used by low-income families this year, according to Center analysis. If final appropriations legislation were to fund the voucher program at the midpoint between the House and Senate bills, it would provide $19.3 billion for housing vouchers, including $17 billion for voucher renewals.
June 21, 2011
The FY11 - 15 capital spending plan has been released.
View the Overall Capital Plan.
View a comparison of Housing Capital Spending in FY11 versus past years here.
June 21, 2011
For the first time this year, both year-over-year foreclosure petitions and deeds decreased in Massachusetts, according to The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman.
Foreclosure petitions - the first step in the foreclosure process in Massachusetts - dropped to 1,127 in October, a near 51 percent decrease from 2,296 in October 2009. This is the first month since January that foreclosure petitions have dropped below 2,000. A total of 22,091 foreclosure petitions have been filed so far this year, compared to 23,931 for the same period last year.
June 21, 2011
BOSTON – November 16, 2010 – The United States Treasury announced today that Massachusetts Commissioner of Banks Steven L. Antonakes, who has played a leadership role on banking issues on the state and national levels, will join the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) implementation team to build the consumer supervision program for the nation’s largest depository institutions.
Please click here to read the full press release.
June 21, 2011
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June 21, 2011
The Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership has released a report assessing the effectiveness of re-housing families sheltered in motels with Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing (HPRP) funds. The report finds that very few families are likely to be able to sustain housing once short-term housing assistance expires. The report includes the following recommendations for the HPRP and Housing First model:
June 21, 2011
State Updates
CHAPA Releases Policy Recommendations for the New Gubernatorial Term