[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 133 (Wednesday, July 11, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40892-40893]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-16902]


=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR-5600-FA-05]


Announcement of Funding Awards for the Self-Help Homeownership 
Opportunity Program (SHOP) for Fiscal Year 2012

AGENCY: Office of Community Planning and Development, HUD.

ACTION: Announcement of funding awards.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

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 2012 (FY 2012) 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. 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 
Service at (800) 877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SHOP program provides federal grants on 
a competitive basis to national and regional nonprofit organizations 
and consortia to undertake self-help homeownership housing programs. 
Grantees may carry out SHOP activities directly and/or distribute SHOP 
funds to local nonprofit affiliates. The SHOP grants must be used to 
purchase land and make necessary infrastructure improvements, which may 
not exceed $15,000 per unit. Leveraged funds must be used for the 
construction or rehabilitation of the SHOP units.
    Low-income homebuyers must contribute their sweat equity to the 
construction of their homes and/or the homes of other homebuyers. 
Reasonable accommodations are made for homebuyers with disabilities. 
Sweat equity involves participation in the construction of the housing, 
which can include, but is not limited to, assisting in the painting, 
carpentry, trim work, drywall, roofing, and siding for the housing. 
Labor is also contributed by

[[Page 40893]]

community volunteers. The SHOP funds together with the homebuyer's 
sweat equity and volunteer labor contributions significantly reduce the 
cost of the housing for the low-income homebuyers.
    The FY 2012 awards announced in this Notice were selected for 
funding in the FY 2012 SHOP competition posted on the grants.gov Web 
site. Applications were scored and selected for funding based on the 
selection criteria in the General Section and the SHOP program section. 
The amount appropriated in FY 2012 to fund the SHOP grants was 
$13,500,000. The allocations for SHOP grantees are as follows:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Community Frameworks, 409 Pacific Avenue Suite 105,           $1,905,750
 Bremerton, WA 98337....................................
Habitat for Humanity International, 121 Habitat Street,        6,693,040
 Americus, GA 31709.....................................
Housing Assistance Council, 1025 Vermont Avenue Suite          4,247,550
 606, Washington, DC 20005..............................
Tierra del Sol Housing Corporation, Western States               653,660
 Housing Consortium, P.O. Box 2626, 880 Anthony Drive,
 Anthony, NM 88021......................................
                                                         ---------------
    Total...............................................      13,500,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    These non-profit organizations propose to distribute SHOP funds to 
several hundred local affiliates and consortium members that will 
acquire and prepare the land for construction, provide homebuyer 
counseling, select homebuyers, coordinate the homebuyer sweat equity 
and volunteer labor efforts, and assist in the arrangement of interim 
and permanent financing.

    Dated: June 19, 2012.
Mark Johnston,
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (Acting).
[FR Doc. 2012-16902 Filed 7-10-12; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4210-67-P