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Minot, ND - October 28, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- With another North Dakota winter around the corner, Senator Kent Conrad returned to Minot today to inspect the progress being made at temporary group housing sites in Minot to support families still recovering from this spring’s record flooding.

Minot, ND - September 6, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senators Kent Conrad and John Hoeven led a group of community officials and representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today to examine the progress being made to build temporary housing for those who lost their homes in the Souris River flood. The group inspected a temporary housing site on the east side of Minot before viewing student housing being built at Minot State University.

BISMARCK, ND - September 6, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- As a part of the state’s flood recovery efforts, the Industrial Commission of North Dakota has approved a plan by the North Dakota Housing Finance Agency (NDHFA) to make an advance commitment of up to $650,000 of its 2012 low income housing tax credits (LIHTC) to build or buy and rehabilitate rental units for lower-income households in flood-ravaged Minot. This advance commitment would be 25 percent of the state’s 2012 credits.

BISMARCK, N.D. - August 18, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Anyone who receives temporary housing assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and continues to have a housing need, must fill out an important form for additional short-term rental assistance in order to remain eligible.

Bismarck, ND - August 9, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senator Kent Conrad and Senator John Hoeven visited with homeowners in the Bismarck-Mandan region today that have been impacted by Missouri River flooding. The Senators were joined by local leaders and officials from FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers to survey damaged homes and discuss how to avoid massive flooding in the future.

BISMARCK, N.D. - July 12, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- North Dakota residents whose mobile homes have been flooded will need to provide proof that their mobile home insurance has no flood coverage before they can receive disaster housing assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

BISMARCK, ND - July 8, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The North Dakota Housing Finance Agency (NDHFA) has awarded more than $4.2 million through the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program for the redevelopment of foreclosed, abandoned or vacant properties into affordable housing

BISMARCK, ND - June 20, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Industrial Commission of North Dakota has approved increases in the maximum income limits for the North Dakota Housing Finance Agency’s (NDHFA) FirstHome™ program. The homeownership program offers reduced interest-rate loans to first-time buyers.

BISMARCK, ND - June 2, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Six North Dakota teams recently attended a Supportive Housing Academy sponsored in part by the North Dakota Housing Finance Agency (NDHFA) and the North Dakota Coalition for Homeless People (NDCHP). Led by the Corporation for Supportive Housing, the training focused on the development of permanent housing with services to prevent and end long-term homelessness

WASHINGTON, DC - May 25, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to the State of North Dakota and provide support to homeowners and low-income renters forced from their homes following a severe winter storm during April and May.