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    Columbus gets $22M for Neighborhood Stablization

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    HUD Approves $100M+ in Neighborhood Stabilization Plans for Twelve Ohio Communities Hard-Hit by Foreclosure
    Funding aimed at neighborhoods facing potential abandonment and blight

    U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today approved plans from twelve Ohio communities seeking to recover from the effects of high foreclosures and declining home values. Funded under HUD’s new Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP), these communities will shortly begin to target emergency assistance to particular neighborhoods by acquiring and redeveloping foreclosed properties that might otherwise become sources of abandonment and blight.

    “It is critical that we work closely with State and local governments to put this money to work as quickly as possible to help communities recover from the effects of foreclosure and declining property values,” said Donovan. “Stabilizing neighborhoods is what this program is all about. HUD will continue to work closely with these communities to make certain these funds are targeted to neighborhoods with the greatest needs.”

    Today, HUD is approving the plans submitted by the following Ohio communities:

    OH    AKRON    $8,583,492
    OH    CANTON    3,678,562
    OH    CINCINNATI    8,361,592
    OH    CLEVELAND    16,143,120
    OH    COLUMBUS    22,845,495
    OH    DAYTON    5,582,902
    OH    HAMILTON COUNTY    7,970,490
    OH    LORAIN    3,031,480
    OH    MONTGOMERY COUNTY    5,988,000
    OH    SPRINGFIELD    2,270,009
    OH    STARK COUNTY    4,181,673
    OH    TOLEDO    12,270,706
    TOTAL $100,907,521

    HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program was created under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 and provides nearly $4 billion to every State and certain local communities experiencing particularly high foreclosure problems and risk of property abandonment. The program permits these State and local governments to purchase foreclosed homes at a discount and to rehabilitate or redevelop them in order to respond to rising foreclosures and falling home values.

    State and local governments can use their neighborhood stabilization grants to acquire land and property; to demolish or rehabilitate abandoned properties; and/or to offer downpayment and closing cost assistance to low- to moderate-income homebuyers (household incomes not exceed 120 percent of area median income). In addition, these grantees can create “land banks” to assemble, temporarily manage, and dispose of vacant land for the purpose of stabilizing neighborhoods and encouraging re-use or redevelopment of urban property.

    The NSP also seeks to prevent future foreclosures by requiring housing counseling for families receiving homebuyer assistance. In addition, the Agency seeks to protect future homebuyers by requiring States and local grantees to ensure that new homebuyers under this program obtain a mortgage loan from a lender who agrees to comply with sound lending practices.

    As state and local governments submit their NSP funding plans, HUD continues to review the plans in an efficient and timely manner.

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