October 2007 Bulletins
BUSH ADMINISTRATION AWARDS $22.2 MILLION IN GRANTS TO CONVERT MULTIFAMILY PROJECTS INTO ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES
Released 10/31/07 by HUD
WASHINGTON – Americans in seven states will soon find themselves living in upgraded apartments equipped to meet their physical needs thanks to more than $22.2 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. HUD Deputy Secretary Roy Bernardi today joined Onondaga County Executive Nicholas J. Pirro and representatives from the office of Congressman Jim Walsh to make the announcement at Bernardine Apartments in Syracuse, New York. Full release
HUD ANNOUNCES $1.6 MILLION TO PROTECT CHILDREN
IN ROCHESTER FROM DANGEROUS LEAD IN THE HOME
Released 10/30/07 by HUD
ROCHESTER, NY – At least 100 homes in Rochester will become healthier places to raise children due to $1,606,710 awarded today by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. HUD’s grant is designed to help Rochester to identify and clean up potentially dangerous lead-based paint hazards in older privately owned low-income housing. The funding is part of nearly $150 million awarded nationwide and a total of $15.6 million in New York State this year. Full release
HUD ENCOURAGES CALIFORNIA LANDLORDS TO PLACE LISTINGS IN THE NATIONAL HOUSING LOCATOR TO HELP THOSE IN FIRE AREA
Released 10/30/07 by HUD
WASHINGTON – As more families displaced by the wildfires in Southern California look for transitional housing, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is expanding its list of available rental housing and strongly encouraging multifamily property owners and landlords to include their unoccupied housing units in HUD's National Housing Locator System (NHLS). Working with federal and private housing databases, HUD is providing a step-by-step process that allows property owners and landlords to easily input their rental housing information into the NHLS. Full release
HUD ANNOUNCES SIX SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS WITH BUILDERS INVOLVED IN CAPTIVE TITLE REINSURANCE ARRANGEMENTS
Released 10/29/07 by HUD
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced separate settlement agreements with six major homebuilders that engaged in complex business arrangements involving captive title reinsurance. The agreements announced today stem from alleged violations of The Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) and total nearly $1.4 million. Full release
Bush Asks for $46 Billion More for Wars
Released 10/23/07 by Military.Com
President Bush asked Congress for $46 billion more to bankroll wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and said he wants the money approved by Christmas. Full release
HUD AND MIAMI-DADE COUNTY SETTLE LAWSUIT
Released 10/19/07 by HUD
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Miami-Dade County have reached an agreement to settle the lawsuit the County filed to block HUD from taking control of the Miami-Dade Housing Agency (MDHA). This settlement allows HUD to take possession of the embattled housing agency on October 26. Full release
HUD ANNOUNCES $8.1 MILLION IN NEW FUNDING TO PROTECT CHILDREN IN HOUSTON AND HARRIS COUNTY FROM DANGEROUS LEAD IN THE HOME
Released 10/18/07 by HUD
HOUSTON - At least 550 homes in Houston and Harris County will become healthier places to raise children due to $8.1 million in funding announced today by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson. Jackson joined Houston Mayor Bill White to make the announcement at the home of Frank and Esther Ramirez, Houston grandparents whose home was recently cleared of lead-based paint hazards. Full release
BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S FORECLOSURE PREVENTION INITIATIVES HELPING FAMILIES KEEP THEIR HOMES
Released 10/16/07 by HUD
BOSTON – The Bush Administration’s foreclosure prevention initiatives are helping more families keep their homes, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said today at the Mortgage Bankers Association 94th Annual Convention. Jackson highlighted several programs and proposals that the Administration has put forward to help struggling homeowners who have been caught up in the subprime wave. Full release
HUD CHARGES A NEW YORK STATE HOUSING AUTHORITY WITH VIOLATING FAIR HOUSING ACT
Released 10/12/07 by HUD
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that it has charged Tuckahoe Housing Authority (THA) with housing discrimination for denying a public housing unit to a disabled woman. Full release
HUD AWARDS $18.7 MILLION IN ‘SWEAT EQUITY GRANTS’ TO FOUR SELF-HELP HOUSING DEVELOPERS
Released 10/11/07 by HUD
DALLAS – More than a thousand low-income families will become homeowners for the first time thanks to their own labor and $18.7 million in funding announced today by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson. Jackson made the announcement to the annual conference of Habitat for Humanity International in Dallas and said HUD’s investment builds on the sweat equity the families themselves contribute. Full release
USNS Comfort Ends Humanitarian Mission
Released 10/8/07 by Military.Com
Defense Secretary Robert Gates paid tribute Saturday to the doctors, nurses and crew of the USNS Comfort on the final day of a four-month humanitarian mission that provided medical help to nearly 380,000 people in Central and South America. Full release
BUSH ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES $44.1 MILLION IN HOUSING COUNSELING GRANTS TO NEARLY 400 NATIONAL, STATE AND LOCAL AGENCIES
Released 10/4/07 by HUD
WASHINGTON – Approximately 700,000 families will have a greater opportunity to find housing or keep the homes they have because of more than $44 million in housing counseling and counseling training grants announced today by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson. Full release
AMERICAN RED CROSS AND HUD AGREE TO SPEED HOUSING INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE TO DISPLACED FAMILIES IN SHELTERS
Released 10/4/07 by HUD
WASHINGTON – Disaster victims who have been forced from their homes will access critically needed housing information and assistance more quickly because of a unique agreement signed today between the American Red Cross and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Under the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two agencies, HUD will gain access to Red Cross shelters in the earliest stages of a presidentially declared disaster and can begin to respond to the housing needs of certain eligible HUD-assisted families, the elderly and other special need persons. Full release
Senate OKs $459 Billion Pentagon Budget
Released 10/4/07 by Military.Com
The Pentagon spending bill does not include President Bush's almost $190 billion request for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill does, however, award the Pentagon a 10 percent increase of $43 billion, much of which would be devoted to procuring new and expensive weapons systems. Full release
Immediate Pay Hike Urged for Disabled Vets
Released 10/4/07 by Military.Com
Veterans disability payments should be increased immediately by up to 25 percent a special commission recommended Wednesday. The study by the Veterans' Disability Benefits Commission also offers the most comprehensive look yet at the ailing government benefits system. Full release
Army Meets Recruiting Goal of 80,000
Released 10/3/07 by Military.Com
The active-duty Army has met its fiscal 2007 recruiting goal of bringing in at least 80,000 new soldiers for the year, Lt. Gen. Ben Freakley, commander of the U.S. Army Accessions Command. Full release
U.S. Kills Al-Qaida in Iraq Leader
Released 10/2/07 by Military.Com
U.S.-led forces killed one of the most important leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq, a Tunisian believed to be connected to the kidnapping and killings last summer of American Soldiers, a top commander said. Full release
Senate Approves $150B in War Funding
Released 10/2/07 by Military.Com
Thwarted in efforts to bring troops home from Iraq, Senate Democrats helped pass a defense policy bill authorizing another $150 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Full release
