Non-disaster HUD miscellany

- Along with the heavy-hitting items already noted, today's Federal Register also invites comments on the information collection process for housing finance agencies' risk-sharing programs and the HUD review of multifamily housing projects prior to mortgage insurance endorsement.

- HUD opens a Fair Housing training academy at Howard University.

- Hostility to low-income housing in Maryland: "...'HUD' can be a highly charged term in this area..."

- News from the HUD Inspector General includes a 15-arrest housing fraud sweep in Indianapolis and a rehab loan repaid by a former New Jersey state casino official following inconclusive investigations by HUD OIG and the FBI.