On Thursday, June 25 at 2:30 EST the Veterans Choice Program Google Hangout will be live streamed on YouTube. Veterans can leave questions on this blog post in advance of the event. For additional information on the Choice Program, click here.
The State of the Nation’s Housing 2015 will be released by live webcast on Wednesday, June 24 at Noon (Eastern). The webcast will feature a panel discussion and viewers will be able to tweet questions using the hashtag #harvardhousingreport.
The USDA Rurall Housing Service published a final rule related to multifamily housing loans. A summary of the rule appears below. For complete details, read the Federal Register.
The Rural Housing Service (RHS or ‘‘Agency’’) is amending its regulation to change the requirements of the reserve account for direct Multifamily Housing (MFH) loans. The intended effect of this action is to address the reserve account requirement of the Agency to countersign with the borrower when a Section 538 guaranteed loan is involved, and to also clarify that reserve account funds cannot be used to pay for fees associated with the Section 538 guaranteed loan program.
The Washington Post’s Emily Badger examines “How Section 8 became a ‘racial slur’” through a brief a history of subsidized housing policies, and how they intersect with race and racial stigma in the United States.
The Federal Reserve Board recently published a new Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2014. The report provides a snapshot of the financial and economic well-being of U.S. households and the issues they face.
Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that nonmetro counties lost 330,000 jobs from January 2014 to January 2015, according to The Daily Yonder. Year-to-year changes in rural employment consistently showed improvements in 2014.
A custom three-bedroom house for $69,000? Welcome to the new model for disaster relief. A Public Radio International (PRI) segment features RAPIDO, an innovative housing for hurricane affected families in Texas’s border colonias.
TAC has released a new report on creating integrated PSH opportunities for extremely low income and disability households. The report highlights important innovations in affordable housing financing policy designed to benefit these households.
Lending and business practices at the nation’s largest manufactured home retailer investigated. The Seattle Times, in conjunction with the Center for Public Integrity, published an in-depth article on Clayton Homes and its Fortune 500 backer.
For the fourth year in a row the smallest rural counties have generally lost population according to The Daily Yonder’s analysis of USDA ERS data. Population in counties with no cities of 10,000 residents and up dropped of half a percent.