Monday morning in housing and hurricanes
- HUD is inviting comment (submissions are due Dec. 14) on its procedures for appealing Sec. 8 rent adjustments, and separately on HOPWA forms. I'm not sure if the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee is of interest to readers here, but its agenda for Nov. 29-30 has just been posted.
- The Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration has again delayed applying some parts of the interim final rule it published in August. The rule is a major regulatory rewrite under the Economic Development Administration Reauthorization Act of 2004.
- The Small Business Administration today launches a "Gulf Opportunity Pilot Loan Program" for loans of up to $150,000 to small businesses in the Katrina/Rita hurricane zones. The pilot program takes effect right away through an interim final rule without a prior proposed-rule stage. Comments are however due Dec. 14.
- The Times-Picayune reports that, if a recent Louisiana rebuilding conference is any guide, New Urbanism, love it or hate it, will have a lot to do with the future of New Orleans. Meanwhile the political organizing group ACORN offers webcast extracts from what appears to have been a separate but similarly timed rebuilding conference. And just recently ACORN's chief organizer made a delicately roundabout allusion to an interesting prospect: what if a New Orleans mayoral campaign were waged by absentee ballot among the voters of the Katrina diaspora?
[MORE: A New York Times editorial asks the basic question of why the federal Katrina relief operation gave the primary housing role to FEMA rather than HUD. Come to think of it, has anyone answered that one yet?]
- The Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration has again delayed applying some parts of the interim final rule it published in August. The rule is a major regulatory rewrite under the Economic Development Administration Reauthorization Act of 2004.
- The Small Business Administration today launches a "Gulf Opportunity Pilot Loan Program" for loans of up to $150,000 to small businesses in the Katrina/Rita hurricane zones. The pilot program takes effect right away through an interim final rule without a prior proposed-rule stage. Comments are however due Dec. 14.
- The Times-Picayune reports that, if a recent Louisiana rebuilding conference is any guide, New Urbanism, love it or hate it, will have a lot to do with the future of New Orleans. Meanwhile the political organizing group ACORN offers webcast extracts from what appears to have been a separate but similarly timed rebuilding conference. And just recently ACORN's chief organizer made a delicately roundabout allusion to an interesting prospect: what if a New Orleans mayoral campaign were waged by absentee ballot among the voters of the Katrina diaspora?
[MORE: A New York Times editorial asks the basic question of why the federal Katrina relief operation gave the primary housing role to FEMA rather than HUD. Come to think of it, has anyone answered that one yet?]
posted by Martha Bridegam at 7:57 AM
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