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Renting vs. Buying: Single-Family Homes Offer Tenants More OptionsĀ 

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This kind of commitment ultimately affects the improvements that tenants want since, in the event that they decide against buying a property, they might want to improve their existing living areas. The post Renting vs. Buying: Single-Family Homes Offer Tenants More Options first appeared on The MortgagePoint.

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Opinion: More financing options for ADUs are needed

Housing Wire

In the ongoing struggle for attainable housing, one positive development has been the increased availability of funding options for homeowners seeking to incorporate Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) into their properties. Some smart lenders, especially among credit unions, have developed some great products for ADU financing.

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HUD Streamlines Affordable Housing Regulations

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Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) has published a Final Rule in the Federal Register to modernize and strengthen regulations for the HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME). HOME is one of the largest federal grant programs specifically for creating housing for disadvantaged households.

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Amazon commits $10.6M to affordable housing in Nashville

Housing Wire

million to build and renovate 130 affordable homes in Nashville, Tennessee, bringing the total investment in the city to about $100 million. million low-rate loan to Cherry Oak Apartments, a mixed-income 96-unit residential apartment with 53 affordable units, in partnership with the Metropolitan Development Housing Agency , Amazon said.

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Biden unveils housing proposal that includes nationwide cap on rent increases

Housing Wire

Exemptions would be provided to new construction and units with ā€œsubstantialā€ renovation and rehabilitation. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced $325 million in Choice Neighborhood grants for affordable housing construction and community development. Also on Tuesday, the U.S.

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The share of owner-occupants buying foreclosures has doubled ā€” hereā€™s why

Housing Wire

Meanwhile, innovation-driven transparency is helping to make distressed property auctions more accessible for these owner-occupant buyers as well as for local community developer buyers who, it turns out, sell most of their renovated foreclosures to owner-occupants. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in August 2022.

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Donā€™t let COVID crisis mask affordable housing opportunity

Housing Wire

Other countries, including England, have developed digital national systems for processing and recording mortgage and property transactions. Across the country, local zoning ordinances have consistently been designed to inhibit the development of medium and high density-housing. Finally, we need to renovate our existing housing stock.