The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has charged another landlord with housing discrimination – this time in San Diego.
HUD entered into a conciliation/voluntary compliance agreement with a resident and owners of a San Diego apartment complex.
Read on for details from the agreement, which resolved allegations the landlord refused to grant a disabled resident’s request for a parking spot close to the building.
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson recently presented $1.5 million to the city of Waco, Texas, to protect children and families from lead-based paint and home health hazards.
The city will address lead hazards in more than 140 housing units in the community for low-income families with children.
Read on to learn more about the grants, which will help the city eliminate lead-based paint and other health hazards.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced its approval of Puerto Rico’s latest disaster recovery action plan to help the island continue to rebuild from Hurricanes Maria and Irma.
The plan includes incorporating more than $8.2 billion in additional Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery funds. The first action plan allocated $1.5 billion and focused primarily on housing programs.
Read on for more on the latest action plan.
The delinquency rate for mortgage loans reached an 18-year low in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) National Delinquency Survey.
The delinquency rate dropped from the previous quarter and on a year-over-year basis across all loan types and stages of delinquency. The MBA attributed the good news to low unemployment, higher wage growth and lower household debt levels.
Read on for more details from the quarterly survey.
Investors are taking on bigger projects and finding an increasing appetite for flipped high-end homes throughout the country.
The markets seeing some of the largest number of luxury housing flips are in California, particularly the Los Angeles, Long Beach and Anaheim areas.
Read on to learn more information on luxury house flip trends from Realtor.com, which analyzed markets where at least 20 flipped homes sold for more than $1 million in 2018.
U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) has teamed with Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio) to reintroduce legislation aimed at helping veterans.
If enacted, the Housing Our Military Servicemembers (HOMeS) Act (H.R. 715) would expand access to housing and legal services to veterans and their families by changing funding allocations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Read on for Beatty’s statement on why the proposed legislation is necessary.
National Association of Realtors (NAR) President Elect Vince Malta recently testified before the House Financial Services Committee on the need for government-sponsored enterprises (GSE) reform.
Malta outlined for House members NAR’s priorities for a legislative restructuring of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Read on to learn more from Malta’s testimony, which focused on the Bipartisan Financing Reform Act of 2018.
Homeowners are more likely to undertake a do-it-yourself remodel than hire a professional, according to the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) “2019 Remodeling Impact Report: DIY.”
The report also shows that cash-strapped millennials are the most likely of any generation to take on a DIY project.
Read on for details from the report, which examines the differences between remodeling when hiring a professional compared to homeowners who pursue DIY projects.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently awarded more than $139 million to 48 state and local government agencies to protect children and families from lead-based paint and home health hazards.
The money was awarded during an event to unveil the Federal Action Plan to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposure.
Read on for details about the plan, designed to reduce children’s exposure to lead sources and identify lead-exposed children.
In a continuing effort to help end veteran homelessness, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will provide a second round of funding to help provide permanent homes to veterans and their families experiencing homelessness in six states and Washington, D.C.
The program will give an additional 424 vouchers to local public housing agencies.
Read on for more details from the federal agencies.
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