[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 13, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62849-62850]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-25764]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5300-FA-13]
Announcement of Funding Awards for the Self-Help Homeownership
Opportunity Program (SHOP) for Fiscal Year 2009
AGENCY: Office of Community Planning and Development, HUD.
ACTION: Announcement of funding awards.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement
notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department in a
competition for funding under the Fiscal Year 2009 (FY 2009) Notice of
Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity
Program (SHOP). This announcement contains the consolidated names and
addresses of this year's award recipients under SHOP.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions concerning SHOP Program
awards, contact Ginger Macomber, SHOP Program Manager, Office of
Affordable Housing Programs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410-4500,
telephone (202) 402-4605. Hearing or speech-impaired individuals may
access this number via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information
Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SHOP program provides grants to national
and regional nonprofit organizations and consortia that have experience
in providing self-help housing. Grant funds are used to purchase land
and install or improve infrastructure, which together may not exceed an
average investment of $15,000 per dwelling unit. Low-income homebuyers
contribute a minimum of 100 hours of sweat equity on the construction
of their homes and/or the homes of other homebuyers participating in
the local self-help housing program. Sweat equity can include, but is
not limited to, assisting in the painting, carpentry, trim work,
drywall, roofing and siding for the housing. Persons with disabilities
can substitute administrative tasks. Donated volunteer labor is also
required.
The SHOP funds together with the sweat equity and volunteer labor
contributions significantly reduce the cost of the housing for the low-
income homebuyers. The FY 2009 awards announced in this Notice were
selected for funding in the competition posted on HUD's Web site on
http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/nofa09/gensec.pdf. Applications
were scored and selected for funding based on the selection criteria in
the General Section and the SHOP program section which can be found at
http://www.hud.gov/library/bookshelf12/supernofa/nofa09/grpshop.cfm.
The amount appropriated in FY 2009 to fund the SHOP grants was
$26,500,000. The allocations for SHOP grantees are as follows:
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Tierra del Sol Housing Corporation, 880 Anthony Drive, $983,089
Anthony, NM 88021......................................
Community Frameworks, 409 Pacific Avenue, Bremerton, WA 5,146,258
98337..................................................
Housing Assistance Council, 1025 Vermont Avenue, 9,130,912
Washington, DC 20005...................................
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Habitat for Humanity International, 121 Habitat Street, 11,239,741
Americus, GA 31709.....................................
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Total............................................... 26,500,000
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These non-profit organizations propose to distribute SHOP funds to
several hundred local affiliates that will acquire and prepare the land
for construction, select homebuyers, coordinate the homebuyer sweat
equity and volunteer efforts, and assist in the arrangement of interim
and permanent financing for the homebuyers.
Dated: October 6, 2010.
Mercedes M[aacute]rquez,
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
[FR Doc. 2010-25764 Filed 10-12-10; 8:45 am]
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