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Posted 12-26-05

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

MEETING PRESIDENTIAL GOALS

Promoting Economic Opportunity and Ownership

• Supporting the President’s ambitious agenda for expanded homeownership by assisting approximately 40,000 low-income families with the downpayment on their first home.
• Preparing families for homeownership, identifying predatory lending practices, and helping current homeowners avoid default.
• Proposing two new mortgage programs that would help more than 250,000 families achieve homeownership.
• Supplying tax credits to increase the supply of single family affordable homes.

Supporting a Compassionate Society

• Working to end chronic homelessness through innovative local strategies to move chronically homeless individuals from the street to permanent supportive housing.
• Helping ex-offenders get a second chance at employment.

Making Government More Effective

• Reforming Housing Vouchers to improve results and better serve two million low-income households.
• Expanding outreach to faith-based and community organizations to level the playing field for the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s formula and competitive grants.
• Reducing improper payments in rental assistance programs.

PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND OWNERSHIP

    More Americans have achieved the dream of homeownership than at any time in our Nation’s history: Sixty-nine percent of households own their homes. For the first time ever in 2004, a majority of minority households own their own homes. The 2006 Budget supports ambitious goals to:

• Add 5.5 million new minority homeowners by 2010 (goal set in 2002)—1.9 million new minority homeowners were added by 2004; and
• Increase the supply of affordable homeownership units by seven million over the next 10 years (goal set in 2004).

American Dream Downpayment Initiative

    Saving enough cash for the downpayment and closing costs is the greatest obstacle to homeownership for many. To help overcome this obstacle, the President proposed new Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding to help low-income families purchase their first homes. On December 16, 2003, President Bush signed the American Dream Downpayment Act. Six months later, HUD distributed $161.5 million in downpayment funds to over 400 State and local Governments. These funds have already helped over 4,000 families purchase their first homes; 50 percent of those families are minorities. The 2006 Budget provides $200 million to continue this initiative.

On December 16, 2003, President Bush signed the American Dream Downpayment Act. As a result of this initiative, on October 29, 2004, Taryn Ramos was able to purchase her first home with the downpayment assistance grants administered by Fresno, California.

Housing Counseling

    The Budget proposes $40 million for Housing Counseling to prepare families for homeownership, identify predatory lending practices, and help current homeowners avoid default. In 2006, HUD will assist approximately 800,000 families to become homeowners or avoid foreclosure, using faith-based and community organizations in this effort.

Ensuring Government-Sponsored Enterprises Promote Affordable Housing

    Government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) were chartered to help low- and moderate-income families secure mortgages. HUD recently published a rule that requires Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to increase their purchases of mortgages for low- and moderate-income households and underserved communities. These new goals will push the GSEs to genuinely lead the market in creating homeownership opportunities for less advantaged Americans.

    In addition to increasing the annual housing goals through 2008 (see accompanying chart), HUD’s rule establishes new home purchase sub-goals in each of the three goal areas. This is intended to focus the GSE’s efforts on purchases of homes rather than refinancings. HUD projects that over the next four years, the GSEs will purchase an additional 400,000 home loans that meet these new and more aggressive goals as a result of the new rule.

FHA Zero Down Payment and Payment Incentives

    To remove two large barriers to homeownership—the down payment and impaired credit—the Budget proposes two mortgage programs. The Zero Down Payment mortgage allows first-time buyers with a strong credit record to finance 100 percent of the home purchase price and closing costs. For borrowers with limited or weak credit histories, a second program, Payment Incentives, initially charges a higher insurance premium and reduces premiums after a period of on-time payments. In 2006, these new mortgage programs would assist more than 250,000 families achieve homeownership.

Single Family Homeownership Tax Credit

    The President proposes a new Single Family Homeownership Tax Credit that will increase the supply of single family affordable homes by up to an additional 50,000 homes annually. Under the President’s plan, builders of affordable homes for middle-income purchasers will receive a tax credit. State housing finance agencies will award tax credits to single family developments located in a census tract with median income equal to 80 percent or less of area median income and will be limited to homebuyers in the same income range. The credits may not exceed 50 percent of the cost of constructing a new home or rehabilitating an existing property. Each State would have a homeownership credit ceiling adjusted for inflation each year and equal to the greater of $1.75 times the State population or $2 million. In total, the tax credit will provide $2.5 billion over five years.

Homeownership Vouchers

    The Homeownership Voucher program, while still new, has successfully paved a path for low-income Americans to become homeowners. Strong and committed collaboration among public housing agencies, local non-profits, and lenders, as well as pre- and post-homeownership counseling for families has proven essential in making the program work. The greatest challenge to the success of the program is finding lenders who are willing to participate.

    Although the Homeownership Voucher program is voluntary, a Program Assessment Rating Tool analysis completed on the program shows that it has over-achieved its annual goals consistently since the program began. In its first four years, the program helped over 2,000 low-income families that were renting through the Section 8 program to become homeowners. In 2006, the program plans to assist 5,000 families achieve homeownership.

Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

    The Budget increases funding for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation to $118 million. The Corporation, a public nonprofit organization chartered by the Congress in 1978 and independent of HUD, is also working to expand minority homeownership. The Corporation is pledging to provide direct assistance to over 170,000 families in 2006 through affordable mortgage and rehabilitation lending, comprehensive homebuyer education, and counseling services.