Affordable Housing News Blog
5 Keys to Senior Housing Finance and Investment in 2019
From Senior Housing News Well before 2019 was on the horizon, experts were speculating on the health of the senior housing industry. As 2018 came to a close, investor confidence in the market continued to drive interest, and flooded the capital markets with money....
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Manufacturing new housing opportunities
From Marietta Times Lending may be easier for pre-built homes A national shortage of affordable housing prompted Freddie Mac, a government-sponsored company that purchases mortgages from banks, to issue in late 2018 a new set of financing guidelines that are expected...
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National Church Residences explains how the government shutdown is hurting residents
From Texas Observer One Casualty of the Government Shutdown: Low-Income Texans Who Need Housing Assistance Texas is a super-user of federal housing programs, but the shutdown has brought loans, tax credits and rental assistance to a screeching halt, hurting poor...
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Meet the candidates who want to become San Antonio’s newest state representative
From San Antonio Express News Five candidates are vying to become San Antonio’s newest state representative in a special election next month, filling a vacancy that has left the region short a lawmaker as Texas’ 86th Legislative Session enters its second week. Four...
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As Shutdown Drags On, Low-Income Housing Providers In Austin Worry Funding For Rent Could Run Out
From KUT Prak Property Management Inc. has been digging into savings to keep some of its low-income properties in Austin running. “It’s like a savings account that every month we are required to put a certain amount of dollars into for things like roofs, appliances,...
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HUD is trying to help thousands of low-income renters amid shutdown
HUD is hoping to use existing funds From Click2Houston (CNN) - The Department of Housing and Urban Development is hoping to find roughly $15 million to renew 170 contracts with private building owners who rent to poor Americans. HUD is hoping to use existing funds to...
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Federal shutdown delays Travis County affordable housing project
From Austin-American Statesman The federal government’s partial shutdown is delaying a Travis County plan to build affordable housing and expand county offices on its Airport Boulevard campus. The $30 million complex, known as Travis Flats, will be built at 5325...
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From Affordable Housing to Border Patrol, Here’s How the Government Shutdown is Affecting Texans
From Texas Monthly Thursday marks Day 20 of the government shutdown, and there’s no end in sight as President Donald Trump arrives in South Texas to try to build support for his planned border wall, the catalyst for the shutdown and a project that most Americans...
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See How Landlords Pack Section 8 Renters Into Poorer Neighborhoods
HUD and census data show how landlords nationwide shut their doors on renters receiving housing assistance. A new federal law would prohibit that. Where to live is one of the most important decisions the leader of a household has to make. But for the most vulnerable...
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House Democrats investigate HUD’s ‘failure’ to act as shutdown threatens affordable housing
From NBC News One HUD employee said the agency took "a shrug of the shoulders kind of approach" to protecting low-income Americans from the shutdown. House Democrats are using their new oversight authority to investigate the Department of Housing and Urban...
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