CPD regs, 203(h), census data, and more

Never rains but it pours: here's a nice big pile of regulations, announcements and reports from HUD and its subsidiary agencies.

- The Office of Community Planning and Development reports it has "completely revised" its CPD Monitoring Handbook, No. 6509.2, REV-5. The handbook itself is available on CPD's section of the main HUD site but not yet on HUDCLIPS, where it will presumably soon be reachable by searching the "6509.2" handbook number under "Search or Browse All HUD Handbooks and Guidebooks."

- HUD is promoting the availability of no-downpayment home mortgages for victims of Hurricane Katrina under the existing 203(h) program.

- HUD and the Census Bureau have released a major study, the 2001 Residential Finance Survey. HUD press release here.

- USA Today covers the latest homeless population census.

- You'd never know the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight was quite possibly headed for replacement by a new GSEs regulator. Today they've posted a notice of reorganization of offices and functions just as if they were going to be around forever.

- The HUD Inspector General is still not satisfied with the agency's information security practices.