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  1. Obama signed FY 2010 Omnibus Appropriations Bill with $65 mil for Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (still within HOPE VI).
  2. We called our Senators & Representatives to support funding the National Housing Trust Fund before Congress adjourns. Did you? 877.210.5351
  3. Last day to comment HUD's Choice Neighborhoods Initiative. No 1-1 replacement or definition of "distressed." choiceneighborhoods@hud.gov
  4. I supported Home & Community, Inc. by voting for them to win $25k with #chasegiving. Please fan, vote, and RT! http://bit.ly/eq1bW
  5. Only 5-6 grants to be made? And no 1-1 replacement? That’s the 2009 HOPE VI NOFA due 11/17. A.k.a. the “Choice Neighborhoods Initiative"
  6. The Senate needs to support H.R. 3288! Let's get more HUD housing funding.
  7. Keeping on top of Barney Frank and Maxine Waters on the one-for-one replacement, demolition/disposition issues. http://tinyurl.com/m6v8wk
  8. Treasury Dept. announced $309 mil. in Recovery Act funding for affordable housing in 7 states. http://tinyurl.com/mxskw5
  9. 13 years of Moving to Work but still a “demonstration program.” Notice for all eligible PHAs yesterday. Doc 09-29 http://tinyurl.com/kpahhq
  10. At least 61 "troubled" Public Housing Authorities have until tomorrow to apply for funds to save Sec 8 vouchers. http://tinyurl.com/pjcvhr
  11. HUD FY'10 proposed fair market rents are out today (Housing Choice Vouchers, section 8 etc), with many increases! http://tinyurl.com/57f3l
  12. @HelpResources check out http://www.mncn.org/info_start.htm There are several others out there, too.
  13. We joined the grassroots Affordable Rental Housing ACTION (A Call To Invest in Our Neighborhoods) Campaign at http://tinyurl.com/lfn3a5
  14. HR 3045, (a.k.a. SEVRA) approved by Financial Svcs Cmte and now on to the full House. Reforms voucher program AND Moving to Work, they say.
  15. Summer 1969, Apollo 11 moon landing and Brooke Amendment limiting low-income tenants’ rent to 25% of income. One small step…
  16. New HOPE VI NOFA issued yesterday. HUD sec’y Donovan pushes for greener program. Just don’t slide back into this: http://tinyurl.com/6fez2l
  17. Join us on Facebook at http://tinyurl.com/mcxub6
  18. @LTSC great, thank you!
  19. House Financial Services Committee marked up SEVRA (Section 8 Voucher Reform Act of 2009, H.R. 3045) http://tinyurl.com/l3w63w
  20. CA Sen. SB 290 makes 60day notice requirement permanent. Tenants displaced by no fault of their own have more time to find new housing.