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Volume 3 Number 9
October 2006
In this Issue
Funding for Recovery in the Hurricanes' Wake, Part I
Neighborhoods in Bloom: Targeted Community Investment Works
Homeownership Voucher Programs: Benefits Are Worth the Challenges
The Maturing of America's Housing Finance System
In the next issue of ResearchWorks
In the Next Issue of ResearchWorks...
HUD's Comprehensive Market Analysis Reports contain valuable information useful to builders, mortgagees, and others concerned with local housing conditions and trends. We'll check out the latest reports for 13 cities located throughout the U.S. to determine what changes in the economic, demographic, and housing inventory have occurred and what the future may hold in these geographically and demographically diverse communities. Our next issue features a continuation of this month's lead article, "Funding for Recovery in the Hurricanes' Wake, Part I." We'll discuss HUD's commitment to ensuring that emergency supplemental appropriations of CDBG funds for hurricane recovery relief addresses the greatest long-term recovery needs. We'll also look at the process of allocating funds based on needs that are both common and unique to each of the affected Gulf Coast states.
In June 2004, an interagency task force was charged by Presidential Executive Order with coordinating efforts to improve the living standards and economic vitality of the Central Joaquin Valley. We'll discover how the San Joaquin Valley Affordable Communities Initiative, together with the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley, is expanding affordable housing and homeownership opportunities in an area with such concentrated poverty that it is sometimes referred to as "Appalachia West."
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