HUD, UTAH MORTGAGE COMPANY SETTLE PREGNANCY DISCRIMINATION CLAIM
WASHINGTON, DC - May 1, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced today that it has reached a Conciliation Agreement with Primary Residential Mortgage, Inc. (PRMI), in Salt Lake City, UT, settling a...
Rep. Bishop and Rep. Kind Introduce Bipartisan Federal Asset Inventory Legislation
WASHINGTON, DC - March 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Congressman Ron Kind (D-WI) introduced the Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform (FLAIR) Act [H.R. 916]. The bill requires the Department of Interior (DOI) to conduc...
Stewart, Colleagues Urge Secretary Salazar to Release Federal Lands in Utah
Washington, D.C. - February 7, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Rep. Chris Stewart (UT-2), along with four other members of the Utah delegation, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, urging the Department to dispose ...
New Affordable Rent-to-Own Housing in Grantsville and Tooele, Utah
WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 28, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Utah Housing Corporation and Tooele County Housing Authority are hosting an open house for four new affordable CROWN (Credits-to-OWN) homes in Grantsville and Tooele. The CROWN program seeks to ...
Chaffetz, Quigley Move to Cut Wasteful Federal Property Spending
WASHINGTON, D.C. - January 23, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Congressmen Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Mike Quigley (D-Ill) reintroduced H.R. 328, the Excess Building and Property Disposal Act that cuts wasteful spending on excess federal property whic...
Utah Housing CFO Cleon Butterfield Appointed Council Member to Federal Home Loan Bank of...
December 10, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Cleon P. Butterfield, Senior Vice President and CFO of Utah Housing Corporation (UHC), was appointed as a Member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle’s Affordable Housing Advisory Council. Mr. Butterfield w...
Utah Division of Housing and Community Development to Release 2012 Comprehensive Report on Homelessness
November 6, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) - The 2012 Comprehensive Report on Homelessness provides information regarding the state of homelessness in Utah. New this year is the State of Utah’s Strategic Plan to End Homelessness and descriptions of newly im...
Housing and Community Development Division Hosts Utah’s Ninth Annual Homeless Summit
SALT LAKE CITY - November 5, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Public, private and non-profit homeless service providers will gather in Salt Lake City to discuss the challenges, successes and trends in serving Utah’s homeless during the Eighth Annual Homele...
CROWN PROGRAM PROVIDES A SOUTH SALT LAKE RESIDENTWITH A PLACE TO CALL HOME
October 31, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Flowy saw a news broadcast for a groundbreaking for Utah Housing Corporation’s CROWN (CRedits to OWN) project in South Salt Lake. Today, Flowy is all smiles and with very good reason. Flowy has lived in multiple...
Home Heating Help Available for Low-Income Utahns
SALT LAKE CITY - October 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Home Energy Assistance Target (H.E.A.T.) applications will be accepted beginning November 1, 2012 and continue through the end of April, 2013 or until funds are exhausted, the Housing and Communit...
Utah Housing CEO Grant Whitaker Named Secretary/Treasurer of the National Council of State Housing...
October 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Grant S. Whitaker, President and CEO of Utah Housing Corporation (UHC), was elected Secretary/Treasurer of the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA) at their Annual Conference held in Orlando, Florida...
Utah Man Pleads Guilty to Charges Connected to Multi-Million-Dollar Mortgage Fraud Scheme
CHARLESTON, WV - July 13, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a Utah man pleaded guilty in federal court for his involvement in a multi-million-dollar mortgage fraud scheme linked to properties at a Putnam County...
New Student-Built Affordable Housing Completed in Davis County
May 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The ECHO program (Educationally Constructed Housing Opportunities) was created by Utah Housing to provide financing to build affordable homes and prepare students for jobs in the construction industry by using a stu...
Statewide Homeless Point-in-Time Count to be Conducted Wednesday
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - January 25, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Public, private and non-profit homeless service providers will conduct an annual Point-In-Time Count of the homeless population in Utah on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012.
HUD REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR RICK GARCIA TO TOUR STATE STREET DEVELOPMENT
SALT LAKE CITY - November 29, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Regional Administrator Rick Garcia will visit Salt Lake City tomorrow, November 29 at 10:30 a.m. to discuss the impact of HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilizati...
Creating a better view in the HGTV Dream Home 2012
PELLA, IA - October 18, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- It’s all about the view, says the architect of the 2012 HGTV Dream Home constructed near Park City, Utah. And what better way for the lucky winner of the stylish home to enjoy that view than through ...
Federal Grand Jury Returns Indictment Charging Utah County Couple in Alleged Mortgage Fraud Scheme
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - October 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- A federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment Wednesday afternoon charging Portia R. Louder, age 40, and Chad Louder, age 41, both of Highland, with criminal violations of federal la...
Chronic Homelessness Drops 26 percent in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - May 12, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Lieutenant Governor Greg Bell and the Division of Housing and Community Development released the results of a snapshot survey showing Utah’s homeless population during a press conference on W...
Lt. Governor Bell to Announce Point in Time Count Homeless Numbers
May 10, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) WHO: Lt. Governor Greg Bell, Gordon D. Walker, Director, Utah Division of Housing and Community Development, Matt Minkivitch, Executive Director, The Road Home
New FBI Field Office to Be High-Performing Green Building
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - April 19, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The U.S. General Services Administration will break ground on the new Federal Bureau of Investigation field office building to be located at 5425 West Amelia Earhart Drive, Salt Lake City. Th...