Continuum of Care News

DHCD's long time Director, Office of Community Programs, Reggie Stanfield is planning to retire in several months.  The Department will be hiring his successor to commence during an "overlap" period prior to Reggie's departure.  Please see the listing and link below for recruitment of the position with Maryland's DHCD overseeing several federal and State programs including the Community Services Block Grant, Emergency Solutions Grants and Home Owners Preserving Equity Programs.  Please post this position and pass this on to your networks and anyone you think may be interested in the position.  Note that the  deadline for application submission is March 26, 2015 . Thanks! Jennine http://www.jobaps.com/MD/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1=15&R2=005478&R3=0008 Program Manager III [076178] Director, Office of Community Programs Recruitment #15-005478-0008 DATE OPENED 3/11/2015 3:59:00 PM FILING DEADLINE 3/26/2...

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . HUD Announces New Public Offering for Section 108 Guaranteed Loans Due to a technical error, some users may not have received this message when it was originally sent. HUD is re-sending this message to ensure all subscribers receive it. HUD has scheduled a Section 108 public offering during the last week in May 2015. This public offering will enable state and local government Section 108 borrowers to obtain long-term, fixed rate financing for approved community and economic development projects. Section 108 borrowers with interim loans will be able to conver...

March 13, 2015 House and Senate Sign-On Letters Circulate! Earlier this week, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Senator Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY), and Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), began asking their colleagues in the House and Senate to join "Dear Colleague" Member sign-on letters in support of HUD's McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants. The House letter  calls for strongly supporting McKinney and the Senate letter calls for providing $2.480 billion for McKinney in (FY) 2016 - the same amount requested by the President in his Budget Proposal. The Senate letter also calls for providing $21.1 billion for Section 8 Tenant-Based Rental Assistance in FY 2016.   We need to get as many representatives' and senators' signatures as possible on these letters, and we need YOUR help! Both letters received strong support last year, and we need the same to happ...