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A higher home loan guarantee limit is back after a brief hiatus but don't expect it to boost sales in the area's high-end market.
Late last week the House of Representatives voted 298 to 121 to raise the conforming loan limit back to $729,750 from $625,500. It's already passed the Senate and President Barack Obama's signature is considered a formality.
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...(viii) With respect to the Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program under ? 58.1(b)(9), any direct... respect to the Section 184 Indian Housing Loan Guarantee program under ? 58.1(b)(11), the Indian ...
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WASHINGTON -- In October 2008, Jeff Albrecht hosted a future president at the Ramada Inn he owned in Portsmouth, Ohio.
After cooking up eggs, bacon and home fries, Albrecht asked then- Sen. Barack Obama if he really planned to back a loan guarantee that would lead to the creation of a uranium centrifuge and guarantee some 4,000 jobs to the state of Ohio.
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WASHINGTON - In an effort to get the federal government out of the housing finance business and reduce the exposure of government- sponsored enterprises to mortgage-backed securities, Sen. Bob Corker has introduced a bill "to get a conversation going.
The Tennessee Republican introduced the Residential Mortgage Market Privatization and Standardization Act to unwind the Federal National Mortgage Association, known as Fannie Mae, and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, known as Freddie Mac, by reducing the percentage of mortgage-backed securities they guarantee.
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... with the loan guarantee, including Home Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) grant funds...
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WASHINGTON -- A Republican lawmaker who has criticized the Department of Energy's $529 million loan guarantee to an electric car company manufacturing vehicles overseas has championed U.S.- backed loans to a company headquartered in his home district that does business around the globe.
Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Upper St. Clair, has called for the House Energy and Commerce's oversight subcommittee to investigate the DOE decision to award the loan to Fisker Automotive, which is manufacturing its first line of vehicles in Finland.
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City requests release of housing funds
The City of Rochester is submitting a request to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the release of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds, HOME Investment Partnerships and Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program funds to be used for the following:
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Here are the votes of Western New York's four members of the House of Representatives and the state's two U.S. senators on major legislation in Congress last week. A "Y" means the member voted for the measure; an "N" means the member voted against the measure; an "A" means the member did not vote.
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... training programs for veterans and extend a home loan guarantee program for spouses who have survi...
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WASHINGTON The ability of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to raise capital which hit rock-bottom last week has been helped by the Federal Reserve's latest market intervention.
Drained by multibillion-dollar fourth-quarter losses, the country's biggest mortgage-finance companies are thirsting for cash so they can play a bigger role in the struggling housing market. But Fannie and Freddie, which together hold or guarantee around $4.9 trillion in home-loan debt, have had difficulty lining up buyers for their mortgage-backed securities amid tumbling home prices and rising foreclosures.
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...PART 92: HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM. Subpart E: Progra... as equity investments, interest-bearing loans or advances, non-interest-bearing loans or advance... jurisdiction may invest HOME funds to guarantee loans made by lenders and, if required, the partic...