Tuesday federal housing announcements
A look around this morning's federal announcements on housing and housing finance:
- The IRS is requesting applications for membership on its Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities. Open positions include one on tax-exempt bonds. The formal Federal Register notice is here.
- A Public and Indian Housing notice, No. 2005-33, today reissues and revises guidance for HUD field offices administering the Section Eight Management Assessment Program (SEMAP) to assist the full spectrum of "Troubled, Near-Troubled, and Non-Troubled Public Housing Authorities."
- The HUD Office of Labor Relations has posted a memo interpreting the President's Davis-Bacon Act suspension for contracting in Hurricane Katrina areas. HUD's previously issued Davis-Bacon guidance is here.
- HUD has posted a "Common Questions" FAQ on its hurricane recovery page. It looks to be mainly for single-family homebuyers and lenders, but at the foot of the page it does get around to making a clear statement of a distinction that was rumored to exist but quite unclearly stated by public agencies during the first several weeks of the Katrina crisis: that the SWERN.gov Web site run by Homeland Security "is designed for institutional users to post or locate large-volume type housing resources" while the privately run hurricanehousing.net/www.DHROnline.org service "is designed for public users to post or locate retail-level housing resources (Ex., a room for free; an apartment for rent, etc.)."
- HUD announces a computer matching program to check for debts at the VA.
...and this concludes our glance around the federal announcements. Further item coming soon on today's Cabrera confirmation hearing. Wishing you a non-troubled or no worse than near-troubled Tuesday.
- The IRS is requesting applications for membership on its Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities. Open positions include one on tax-exempt bonds. The formal Federal Register notice is here.
- A Public and Indian Housing notice, No. 2005-33, today reissues and revises guidance for HUD field offices administering the Section Eight Management Assessment Program (SEMAP) to assist the full spectrum of "Troubled, Near-Troubled, and Non-Troubled Public Housing Authorities."
- The HUD Office of Labor Relations has posted a memo interpreting the President's Davis-Bacon Act suspension for contracting in Hurricane Katrina areas. HUD's previously issued Davis-Bacon guidance is here.
- HUD has posted a "Common Questions" FAQ on its hurricane recovery page. It looks to be mainly for single-family homebuyers and lenders, but at the foot of the page it does get around to making a clear statement of a distinction that was rumored to exist but quite unclearly stated by public agencies during the first several weeks of the Katrina crisis: that the SWERN.gov Web site run by Homeland Security "is designed for institutional users to post or locate large-volume type housing resources" while the privately run hurricanehousing.net/www.DHROnline.org service "is designed for public users to post or locate retail-level housing resources (Ex., a room for free; an apartment for rent, etc.)."
- HUD announces a computer matching program to check for debts at the VA.
...and this concludes our glance around the federal announcements. Further item coming soon on today's Cabrera confirmation hearing. Wishing you a non-troubled or no worse than near-troubled Tuesday.
posted by Martha Bridegam at 10:54 AM
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