[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 182 (Thursday, September 19, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 57650]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-22817]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5700-FA-11]
Announcement of Funding Awards for the Self-Help Homeownership
Opportunity Program (SHOP) for Fiscal Year 2013
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 the Department's funding decisions with respect
to the Fiscal Year 2013 (FY2013) Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA)
for the Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP) that was
posted on the Grants.gov Web site. This announcement contains the names
and addresses of the recipients of the FY2013 SHOP grant awards.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ginger Macomber, SHOP Program Manager,
Office of Affordable Housing Programs, 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
Service at (800) 877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SHOP program provides federal grants on
a competitive basis to national and regional nonprofit organizations
and consortia to undertake self-help homeownership housing programs.
Grantees may carry out SHOP activities directly and/or distribute SHOP
funds to local nonprofit affiliate organizations. SHOP Grant funds must
be used for land acquisition, infrastructure improvements, and for
reasonable and necessary planning, administration and management costs
(not to exceed 20 percent). The average SHOP Grant expenditure for the
combined costs of land acquisition and infrastructure improvements must
not exceed $15,000 per SHOP unit. The construction or rehabilitation
costs of each SHOP unit must be funded with other leveraged public and
private funds.
Low-income homebuyers must contribute a significant amount of sweat
equity towards the development of the SHOP units. Sweat equity involves
participation in the construction of the housing, which can include,
but is not limited to, assisting in the painting, carpentry, trim work,
drywall, roofing, and siding for the housing. Reasonable accommodations
must be made for homebuyers with disabilities. Labor is also
contributed by community volunteers. The SHOP funds together with the
homebuyer's sweat equity and volunteer labor contributions
significantly reduce the cost of the housing for the low-income
homebuyers.
SHOP units must be decent, safe, and sanitary non-luxury dwellings
that comply with state and local codes, ordinances, and zoning
requirements, and with the SHOP requirements (including requirements
for energy-efficiency and water conservation). The SHOP units must be
sold to homebuyers at prices below the prevailing market price. A
homebuyer's sweat equity contribution must not be mortgaged or
otherwise restricted upon future sale of the SHOP unit.
HUD awarded FY2013 SHOP grants to the following self-help housing
organizations in accordance with the competitive criteria set forth in
the FY2013 SHOP NOFA.
Community Frameworks, 409 Pacific Avenue Suite 105, $1,579,500
Bremerton, WA 98337....................................
Habitat for Humanity International, 270 Peachtree Street 7,700,637
NW., Atlanta, GA 30303.................................
Housing Assistance Council, 1025 Vermont Avenue NW., 2,846,803
Washington, DC 20005...................................
Tierra del Sol Housing Corporation (lead entity), 666,929.
Western States Housing Consortium, 210 East Idaho
Avenue, 880 Anthony Drive, Las Cruces, NM 88005........
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Total............................................... 12,793,869
These organizations propose to distribute their SHOP grant funds to
over a hundred local affiliates and consortium members that will
acquire and prepare land for development, provide homebuyer counseling,
select homebuyers, coordinate the homebuyer sweat equity and volunteer
labor efforts, and assist in arranging interim and permanent financing.
At least 718 units of self-help homeownership housing will be completed
and conveyed to low-income homebuyers.
Dated: September 11, 2013.
Mark Johnston,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs.
[FR Doc. 2013-22817 Filed 9-18-13; 8:45 am]
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