Housing News

At the request of municipalities and state agencies, CHAPA serves as a monitoring agent for some mixed-income housing developments in Massachusetts.  This involves ensuring that income-eligible low and moderate income households occupy the affordable units, and managing the refinancing and resale of those units.    CHAPA is seeking an Assistant Program Manager to carry out the following responsibilities on a part-time (3 days/week) basis:  

State Updates Legislature Adds $1 Million to Public Housing and $1 Million to RAFT Following Patrick Budget Vetoes

  Making Home Affordable Program on Pace to Offer Help to Millions of Homeowners Public Release of Data Provides Transparency on Servicer Performance

Click here to view the 2010 Proposed Fair Market Rents for the Section 8 Program.

Economic activity in Massachusetts is estimated to have declined at a 1.6 percent annualized rate in the second quarter of 2009, according to the MassBenchmarks Current Economic Index. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported today that the national economy declined at an estimated annual rate of 1.0 percent during the same period. In the first quarter of this year, the state economy declined at a 4.0 percent rate, as compared to a 5.5 percent rate of decline for the U.S.

H.R.3288 TITLE: Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.

Please click here to read DHCD's memo.

Please click here to read the letter.

Washington, DC - The Financial Services Committee today approved H.R. 3045, the Section Eight Voucher Reform Act of 2009. The landmark bill would reform the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program, which provides rental housing assistance to 2 million low-income families nationwide. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), was approved by a vote of 41- 24. Please click here to read the full press release.

Please click here for text of the Bill.