How did the Federal Housing Program start?
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this is from their official site, and the success they tout at the end is very debatable.\n\nCongress created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) in 1934. The FHA became a part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Office of Housing in 1965.\n\nWhen the FHA was created, the housing industry was flat on its back:\n\n\nTwo million construction workers had lost their jobs.\n\n\nTerms were difficult to meet for homebuyers seeking mortgages.\n\n\nMortgage loan terms were limited to 50 percent of the property's market value, with a repayment schedule spread over three to five years and ending with a balloon payment.\n\n\nAmerica was primarily a nation of renters. Only four in 10 households owned homes.\n\nDuring the 1940s, FHA programs helped finance military housing and homes for returning veterans and their families after the war.\n\nIn the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, the FHA helped to spark the production of millions of units of privately-owned apartments for elderly, handicapped and lower income Americans. When soaring inflation and energy costs threatened the survival of thousands of private apartment buildings in the 1970s, FHA's emergency financing kept cash-strapped properties afloat.\n\nThe FHA moved in to steady falling home prices and made it possible for potential homebuyers to get the financing they needed when recession prompted private mortgage insurers to pull out of oil producing states in the 1980s.\n\nBy 2001, the nation's homeownership rate had soared to an all time high of 68.1 percent as of the third quarter that year.\n\nThe FHA and HUD have insured almost 33 million home mortgages and 47,205 multifamily project mortgages since 1934. FHA currently has 4.8 million insured single family mortgages and 13, 000 insured multifamily projects in its portfolio. \n\nIn the more than 60 years since the FHA was created, much has changed and Americans are now arguably the best housed people in the world. HUD has helped greatly with that success.
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Try Habitat for Humanity . com to start
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I cannot find anything but I am sure a quick call to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development can tell you. Better to know for sure regardless.
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Start by looking at the website for the American Homebuilders Association.  Google "housing industry history".  Ask your local reference librarian for help too - the web is not always the most efficient source for information.
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FDR created the Social Security and many other programs to act as a safety net for those who were poor or elderly and could not work.  He Also created the New Deal.  Check out the link great source of info.
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FICA is better known as Social Security. Franklin Roosevelt signed it into law in August, 1935. The first SS checks were issued in 1937.\n\nHere is the history from the Social Security administration:\nhttp://www.ssa.gov/history/1930.html
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Well, the Section 8 that I'm familiar with is government housing assistance. So, I'd start by  Googling HUD (Housing & Urban Development). You can contact the state's Chamber of Commerce, or a municipality's chamber of commerce. You can also look up a state senator or assemblyman there and ask someone in their office for logistical help.
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Visit the HUD page on available grants and check if there is anything available where you can qualify and fits your needs\n\nhttp://www.hud.gov/grants/index.cfm\n\nYou will be required to submit your grant application electronically (mandatory now)\nhttp://www.hud.gov/grants/index.cfm
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There are several:\n\nTransforming FHA - HUD will propose transforming the Federal Housing Administration to include updating decades-old requirements that severely limit FHA's ability to reach the very homeowners it was created to serve. HUD will propose amending the National Housing Act to allow FHA to offer new mortgage options to benefit lower income borrowers who currently are forced to turn to nonprime, high-risk mortgage products to purchase their homes. This proposal will restore FHA to fulfill its mission to give families a safe deal at a fair price.\n\nHOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) Program - HOME is the largest federal block grant program dedicated to creating affordable housing for low-income families. The Administration proposes $1.9 billion for the HOME program in 2007, an increase of $123 million from this year. Each HOME dollar allocated to a local jurisdiction traditionally stimulates more than three dollars from other public and private sources.\n\nThe American Dream Downpayment Initiative (ADDI) - The 2007 Budget provides $100 million to help first-time homebuyers overcome the biggest obstacles to homeownership - downpayment and closing costs. Since President Bush signed this initiative into law, ADDI has helped nearly 14,000 families to purchase their first home, nearly half of whom are minority.\n\nSelf-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP) - The Budget proposes $40 million for HUD's SHOP Program, which allows lower income families to purchase their first home through their own "sweat equity." Those who benefit from SHOP funds must contribute at least 100 hours of their own labor to help make a house their home.
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well that would be a federal fraud felony call the local hud housing agency in your area and ask them.  they will tell you.
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here is the US home page:\n\nhttp://www.habitat.org/intl/na/218.aspx\n\nIt is not part of HUD, that is a government entity.\n\nhttp://www.hud.gov
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the social security program  was created in 1935 by FDR.\nthe first payments began in 1937.  However, at the time\nit was created the life span of a newborn was around 62.  \n\nA person could collect full retirment benefits only after age 65.\nSo it was designed so that not everyone would be collecting retirement benefits.
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Here is a list of ALL federal grants available to home owners. There's not many, and none to help in purchasing a new home -unless you are willing to give sweat equity or you qualify as very low income.\n\n10.417 USDA Very Low-Income Housing Repair Loans and Grants \nhttp://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALOG.PROGRAM_TEXT_RPT.SHOW?p_arg_names=prog_nbr&p_arg_values=10.417\n\n10.433 USDA Rural Housing Preservation Grants \n10.444 USDA Direct Housing_Natural Disaster Loans and Grants \n11.462 DOC Hydrologic Research \n12.111 DOD Emergency Advance Measures for Flood Prevention \n14.126 HUD Mortgage Insurance_Cooperative Projects \n14.127 HUD Mortgage Insurance_Manufactured Home Parks \n14.132 HUD Mortgage Insurance_Purchase of Sales-Type Cooperative Housing Units \n14.168 HUD Land Sales_Certain Subdivided Land \n14.197 HUD Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act \n\n14.247 HUD Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program \nhttp://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALOG.PROGRAM_TEXT_RPT.SHOW?p_arg_names=prog_nbr&p_arg_values=14.247\n\n14.310 HUD Teacher Next Door Initiative \n14.856 HUD Lower Income Housing Assistance Program_Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation \n14.901 HUD Healthy Homes Demonstration Grants \n14.902 HUD Lead Technical Studies Grants \n66.032 EPA State Indoor Radon Grants \n66.806 EPA Superfund Technical Assistance Grants (TAG) for Community Groups at National Priority List (NPL) Sites \n97.022 DHS Flood Insurance\n\nYou can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support a for-profit venture.\n\nEven if you buy books on "how to get grants" or list that supposedly has information on grants -- all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA has, albeit packaged differently. \n\nThere is no truth to what others say that there are grants for just about any purpose. That's not how grants work, and that's a myth perpetuated by those who wish to profit from this misinformation (and there are a lot)\n\nMost of the federal grants are given to specific target groups with specific requirements (e.g. minority business owners involved in transportation related contracts emanating from DOT - Grant#20.905 Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Short Term Lending Program \n\nGrants are also often given to non profit groups or organizations involved in training or other similar activities (grant 59.043 Women's Business Ownership Assistance that are given to those who will create women's business center that will train women entrepreneurs
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Find your local housing authority or HUD office.\n\nCheck out the following link:\n\nhttp://www.hud.gov/apps/section8/\n\nIt should assist you in finding subsidized housing until you can get on your feet.
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You can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support a for-profit venture.\n\nEven if you buy books on "how to get grants" or list that supposedly has information on grants -- all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA has, albeit packaged differently. But still the info is the same - hardly any grants for starting a for profit business.\n\nFor specific housing grants, go to HUD http://www.hud.gov/grants/index.cfm but you will be asked to go to Grants.gov to apply\n\nhttp://www.cfda.gov\nhttp://www.grants.gov\nhttp://gtionline.fdncenter.org\nhttp://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol66/grants.htm\nhttp://www.sba.gov/expanding/grants.html
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That is what was used to establish the federal income tax. Yes, seriously.
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HDFC (Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited) was incorporated in 1977 with the primary objective of promoting home ownership by providing long-term finance to households for their housing needs. \n\nHDFC was amongst the first to receive an 'in principle' approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up a bank in the private sector, as part of the RBI's liberalisation of the Indian Banking Industry in 1994. The bank was incorporated in August 1994 in the name of 'HDFC Bank Limited', with its registered office in Mumbai, India. HDFC Bank commenced operations as a Scheduled Commercial Bank in January 1995.