[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 153 (Tuesday, August 9, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48876-48877]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-20186]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5415-FA-34]


Announcement of Funding Awards for the Self-Help Homeownership 
Opportunity Program (SHOP) for Fiscal Year 2010

AGENCY: Office of Community Planning and Development, HUD.

ACTION: Announcement of funding awards.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement 
notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department in a 
competition for funding under the Fiscal Year 2010 (FY 2010) Notice of 
Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity 
Program (SHOP). This announcement contains the consolidated names and 
addresses of this year's award recipients under SHOP.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions concerning SHOP Program 
awards, contact Ginger Macomber, SHOP Program Manager, Office of 
Affordable Housing Programs, U.S.

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Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20410-4500, telephone (202) 402-4605. Hearing or speech-
impaired individuals may access this number via TTY by calling the 
toll-free Federal Information Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SHOP program provides grants to national 
and regional nonprofit organizations and consortia that have experience 
in providing self-help housing. Grant funds are used to purchase land 
and install or improve infrastructure, which together may not exceed an 
average investment of $15,000 per dwelling unit. Low-income homebuyers 
contribute a minimum of 100 hours of sweat equity on the construction 
of their homes and/or the homes of other homebuyers participating in 
the local self-help housing program. Sweat equity can include, but is 
not limited to, assisting in the painting, carpentry, trim work, 
drywall, roofing and siding for the housing. Persons with disabilities 
can substitute administrative tasks. Donated volunteer labor is also 
required.
    The SHOP funds together with the sweat equity and volunteer labor 
contributions significantly reduce the cost of the housing for the low-
income homebuyers. The FY 2010 awards announced in this Notice were 
selected for funding in the NOFA competition posted on February 1, 
2011, on the grants.gov website. Applications were scored and selected 
for funding based on the selection criteria in the General Section and 
the SHOP program NOFA.
    The amount appropriated in FY 2010 to fund the SHOP grants was 
$26,730,000. The allocations for SHOP grantees are as follows:

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Tierra del Sol Housing Corporation, 880 Anthony Drive,          $866,898
 Anthony, NM 88021......................................
Community Frameworks, 409 Pacific Avenue, Bremerton, WA        7,361,863
 98337..................................................
Housing Assistance Council, 1025 Vermont Avenue,               3,131,489
 Washington, DC 20005...................................
Habitat for Humanity International, 121 Habitat Street,       15,369,750
 Americus, GA 31709.....................................
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    Total...............................................      26,730,000
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    These non-profit organizations propose to distribute SHOP funds to 
several hundred local affiliates that will acquire and prepare the land 
for construction, select homebuyers, coordinate the homebuyer sweat 
equity and volunteer efforts, and assist in the arrangement of interim 
and permanent financing for the homebuyers.

    Dated: August 4, 2011.
Mercedes Marquez,
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
[FR Doc. 2011-20186 Filed 8-8-11; 8:45 am]
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